QGIS 2.14 UserGuide Es

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QGIS User Guide

Publicacin 2.14
QGIS Project
04 de April de 2017
Contents
1 Prembulo 1
2 Convenciones 3
2.1 Convenciones de la Interfaz Grfica o GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Convenciones de Texto o Teclado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Instrucciones especficas de cada plataforma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Prlogo 5
4 Caractersticas 7
4.1 Ver datos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2 Explorar datos y componer mapas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3 Crear, editar, gestionar y exportar datos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4 Analizar datos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.5 Publicar mapas en Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.6 Extender funcionalidades QGIS a travs de complementos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.7 Consola de Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.8 Problemas Conocidos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5 Novedades de QGIS 2.14 11
6 Comenzar 13
6.1 Instalacin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.2 Lanzando QGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.3 Sesin de Muestra: Cargar capas rster y vectorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.4 Proyectos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.5 Salida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7 IGU QGIS 21
7.1 Barra de Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7.2 Panels and Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.3 Vista del mapa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.4 Barra de Estado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8 Herramientas generales 37
8.1 Teclas de acceso rpido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.2 Ayuda de contexto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.3 Renderizado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.4 Selector de color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.5 Modos de Mezcla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8.6 Zooming and Panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.7 Mediciones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.8 Seleccionar y deseleccionar objetos espaciales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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8.9 Data defined override setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8.10 Identificar objetos espaciales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
8.11 Herramientas de anotaciones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
8.12 Marcadores espaciales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
8.13 Anidar proyectos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.14 Elementos decorativos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
8.15 Autenticacin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
8.16 Guardar capa en archivo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
8.17 Use of variables for dynamic content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
9 Configuracin QGIS 55
9.1 Propiedades del proyecto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
9.2 Opciones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
9.3 Personalizacin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
10 Trabajar con Proyecciones 69

10.1 Vista general de la ayuda de proyeccin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
10.2 Especificar proyeccin global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
10.3 Definir reproyeccin al vuelo (OTF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
10.4 Sistema de referencia de coordenadas personalizada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
10.5 Transformaciones de datos perdeterminadas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
11 Navegador QGIS 75
11.1 QGIS Browser widget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
11.2 QGIS Browser as a standalone application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
12 Trabajar con catos vectoriales 79

12.1 Formatos de datos compatibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
12.2 La librera Smbolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
12.3 El Dialogo de las Propiedades del Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
12.4 Expresiones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
12.5 Trabajar con la tabla de atributos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
12.6 Editar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12.7 Capa virtual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
13 Trabajar con catos raster 177

13.1 Trabajar con Datos Raster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
13.2 Dialogo de Propiedades Raster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
13.3 Anlisis raster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
14 Trabajar con datos OGC 191

14.1 QGIS como Cliente de Datos OGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
14.2 QGIS como Servidor de Datos OGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
15 Trabajar con datos GPS 213

15.1 Plugin de GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
15.2 Seguimiento de GPS en Vivo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
16 Sistema de autenticacin 223

16.1 Authentication System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
16.2 User Authentication Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
16.3 Consideraciones de Seguridad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
17 Integracion GRASS SIG 245

17.1 Conjuntos de datos demostracin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
17.2 Cargar capas rster y vectorial de GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
17.3 Importar datos dentro de una UBICACIN DE GRASS mediante arrastrar y soltar . . . . . . . . 245
17.4 Manejando datos GRASS en navegador QGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
17.5 Opciones GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
17.6 Iniciar el complemento GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
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17.7 Abrir directorio de mapas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
17.8 LOCALIZACIN y DIRECTORIO DE MAPA GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
17.9 Importar datos dentro de una LOCALIZACIN DE GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
17.10 El modelo de datos vectoriales de GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
17.11 Crear una nueva capa vectorial GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
17.12 Digitalizar y editar una capa vectorial GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
17.13 La herramienta de regin GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
17.14 La caja de herramientas GRASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
18 Entorno de trabajo de procesamiento de QGIS 261

18.1 Introduccin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
18.2 La caja de herramientas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
18.3 Modelador grfico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
18.4 La interfaz de procesamiento por lotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
18.5 Utilizar algoritmos de procesamiento desde la consola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
18.6 El administrador del historial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
18.7 Escribir nuevos algoritmos de procesamiento como scripts python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
18.8 Manipulacin de datos producidos por el algoritmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
18.9 La comunicacin con el usuario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
18.10 Documentando sus scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
18.11 Scripts de ejemplo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
18.12 Las mejores practivas al escribir scripts de algoritmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
18.13 Pre y post ejecucin de ganchos de scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
18.14 Configurar aplicaciones externas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
18.15 La lnea de rdenes de QGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
19 Diseadores de impresin 303

19.1 Perspectiva general del Diseador de impresin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
19.2 Elementos de diseo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
19.3 Creating an Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
20 Complementos 347
20.1 Complementos de QGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
20.2 Usar complementos bsicos de QGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
20.3 Complemento Captura de coordenadas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
20.4 Complemento administrador de BBDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
20.5 Complemento Conversor DxfaShp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
20.6 Complemento Visualizacin de Eventos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
20.7 Complemento fTools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
20.8 Complemento Herramientas de GDAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
20.9 Complemento Comprobador de geometra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
20.10 Complemento Autoensamblador de geometras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
20.11 Complemento Georreferenciador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
20.12 Complemento Mapa de calor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
20.13 Complemento de interpolacin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
20.14 Cliente de Catlogo de metasearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
20.15 Complemento Edicin fuera de linea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
20.16 Complemento GeoRaster espacial de Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
20.17 Complemento Anlisis de Terreno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
20.18 Complemento Grafo de rutas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
20.19 Complemento Consulta espacial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
20.20 Complemento Comprobador de topologa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
20.21 Complemento de Estadsticas de zona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
21 Ayuda y apoyo 401

21.1 Listas de correos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
21.2 IRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
21.3 Rastreador de Errores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
21.4 Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
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21.5 Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
21.6 Wiki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
22 Apndice 405
22.1 GNU General Public License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
22.2 Licencia de Documentacin Libre de GNU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
23 Referencias bibliogrficas y web 415
ndice 417
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CHAPTER 1
Prembulo
Este documento es la gua de usuario original del software descrito QGIS. El software y hardware descritos
en este documento son en la mayora de los casos marcas registradas y por lo tanto sujetas a requerimientos
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http://www.qgis.org.
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Por lo tanto, los datos no estn sujetos a ningn derecho o garanta. Los autores y editores no aceptan ninguna
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QGIS User Guide, Publicacin 2.14
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CHAPTER 2
Convenciones
Esta seccin describe los estilos homogneos que se utilizarn a lo largo de este manual.
2.1 Convenciones de la Interfaz Grfica o GUI
Las convenciones de estilo del GUI estn destinadas a imitar la apariencia de la interfaz grfica de usuario. En
general, un estilo reflejar la apariencia simplificada, por lo que un usuario puede escanear visualmente el GUI
para encontrar algo que se parece a lo mostrado en el manual.
Men Opciones: Capa Aadir capa rster o Preferencias Barra de Herramientas Digitalizacion
Aadir capa rster

Herramienta:
Boton : [Guardar como]
Ttulo del Cuadro de Dilogo: Propiedades de capa
Pestaa: General
Seleccin: Renderizar
Botn de seleccin: Postgis SRID EPSG ID
Seleccionar un nmero:
Seleccionar una cadena:
Buscar una archivo:
Seleccionar un color:
Barra de desplazamiento:
Texto de entrada:
El sombreado muestra un componente de la interfaz que el usuario puede pulsar.
2.2 Convenciones de Texto o Teclado
Entes manual tambin inclue estilos relacionados a textos, comandos de teclado y codificacion para indicar difer-
entes entidades, como las clases o mtodos. Estos estilos no corresponden a la apariencia real de cualquier texto o
codificacion dentro de QGIS.
Hiperenlaces: http://qgis.org
Combinaciones de Teclas: Pulsar Ctrl+B, significa mantener pulsada la tecla Ctrl y pulsar la letra B.
Nombre de un Archivo: lakes.shp
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Nombre de una Clase: NewLayer

Mtodo: classFactory
Servidor: myhost.de
Texto para el Usuario: qgis --help
Las lneas de cdigo se muestran con una fuente de ancho fijo:
PROJCS["NAD_1927_Albers",
GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1927",
2.3 Instrucciones especficas de cada plataforma
Secuencias de GUI y pequeas cantidades de texto pueden ser formateadas en lnea: Haga clic Archivo
QGIS Salir de QGIS. Esto indica que en plataformas Linux, Unix y Windows, deber hacer clic primero en el
men Archivo, y luego Salir, mientras que en plataformas Macintosh OS X debe hacer clic primero en el men
QGIS y despus Salir.
Las cantidades mayores de texto se pueden formatear como listas:
Hacer esto
Hacer aquello
Hacer otra cosa

o como prrafos:
Hacer esto y esto y esto. Entonces hacer esto y esto y esto, y esto y esto y esto, y esto y esto y esto.
Hacer eso. Entonces hacer eso y eso y eso, y eso y eso y eso y eso, y eso y eso y eso, y eso y eso y eso, y eso y
eso y eso.
Las capturas de pantalls que aparecen a lo largo de la gua de usuario han sido creadas en diferentes plataformas;
stas se indicarn por el icono especfico para cada una al final del pie de imagen.
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CHAPTER 3
Prlogo
Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de los Sistemas de Informacin Geogrfica (SIG)!

QGIS es un Sistema de Informacin Geogrfica de cdigo abierto. El proyecto naci en mayo de 2002 y se
estableci como un proyecto en SourceForge en junio del mismo ao. Hemos trabajado duro para hacer que el
software SIG (tradicionalmente software propietario caro) est al alcance de cualquiera con acceso bsico a un
ordenador personal. QGIS actualmente funciona en la mayora de plataformas Unix, Windows y OS X. QGIS se
desarrolla usando el kit de herramientas Qt (http://qt.digia.com) y C++. Esto significa que es ligero y tiene una
interfaz grfica de usuario (GUI) agradable y fcil de usar.
QGIS pretende ser un SIG amigable, proporcionando funciones y caractersticas comunes. El objetivo inicial
del proyecto era proporcionar un visor de datos SIG. QGIS ha alcanzado un punto en su evolucin en el que
est siendo usado por muchos para sus necesidades diarias de visualizacin de datos SIG. QGIS admite diversos
formatos de datos rster y vectoriales, con el nuevo formato de ayuda fcilmente agregado usando la arquitectura
del complemento.
QGIS se distribuye bajo la Licencia Pblica General GNU (GPL). El desarrollo de QGIS bajo esta licencia sig-
nifica que se puede revisar y modificar el cdigo fuente y garantiza que usted, nuestro feliz usuario, siempre tendr
acceso a un programa de SIG que es libre de costo y puede ser libremente modificado. Debera haber recibido una
copia completa de la licencia con su copia de QGIS, y tambin podr encontrarla en el Apndice GNU General
Public License.
Truco: Documentacin al da
La ltima versin de este documento siempre se puede encontrar en el rea de documentacin de la web de QGIS
en http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/.
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CHAPTER 4
Caractersticas
QGIS ofrece muchas funcionalidades SIG comunes proporcionado por las caractersticas principales y comple-
mentos. Un breve resumen de las seis categoras generales de caractersticas y complementos se presenta a con-
tinuacin, seguido por las primeras perspectivas sobre la consola de Python integrado.
4.1 Ver datos
Se puede ver y sobreponer datos vectoriales y rster en diferentes formatos y proyecciones sin convertir a un
formato interno o comn. Los formatos admitidos incluyen:
Tablas y vistas habilitadas para operaciones espaciales utilizando PostGIS, SpatiaLite y MS SQL Spatial,
Oracle Spatial, formatos vectoriales admitidos por la biblioteca OGR instalada, incluyendo archivos shape
de ESRI, MapInfo, SDTS, GML y muchos ms. Vea la seccin Trabajar con catos vectoriales.
Rster y formatos de imagenes admitidos por la biblioteda GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)
instalada, por ejemplo GeoTIFF, ERDAS IMG, ArcInfo ASCII GRID, JPEG, PNG y muchos ms. Vea la
seccin Trabajar con catos raster.
Rster GRASS y datos vectoriales de base de datos GRASS (location/mapset). Vea seccin Integracion
GRASS SIG.
Datos espaciales en lnea servidos como servicios web OGC incluyendo WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS, y
WFS-T. Vea la seccin Trabajar con datos OGC.
4.2 Explorar datos y componer mapas
Se puede componer mapas y explorar datos espaciales interactivamente con una GUI amigable. Las muy tiles
herramientas disponibles en la GUI incluyen:
Navegador QGIS
Reproyeccin al vuelo
Gestor de Base de Datos
Diseador de mapas
Panel de vista general
Marcadores espaciales
Herramientas de anotaciones
Identificar/seleccionar objetos espaciales
Editar/ver/buscar atributos
Etiquetado de elementos definidos por los datos
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Vectores definidos por datos y herramientas para simbologia raster.

Composicin del atlas y mapa con capas de cuadricula.
flecha barra de escala y etiqueta de derechos de autor para mapas
Apoyo para guardar y restaurar proyectos
4.3 Crear, editar, gestionar y exportar datos
Puede crear, editar, administrar y exportar capas vectoriales y rster en varios formatos. QGIS ofrece lo siguiente:
Herramientas de digitalizacin para formatos reconocidos OGR y capas vectoriales GRASS
Capacidad para crear y editar archivos shape y capas vectoriales GRASS
Complemento de georeferenciador para geocodificar imgenes
Herramienta GPS para importar y exportar formato GPX y convertir otros formatos GPS a GPX o descargar
o subir directo a la unidad GPS (en Linux, usb se agredo a la lista de objetos GPS.)
Apoyo para visualizar y editar datos de OpenStreetMap
Capacidad para crear tablas de base de datos espaciales desde archivos shape con el complemento de Ad-
ministrados de BBDD
Mejor manejo de tablas de bases de datos espaciales
Herramientas para la gestin de tablas de atributos vectoriales
Opcin para guardar capturas de pantalla como imgenes georeferenciadas
Herramienta para exportar DXF con capacidades aumentadas de explorar estilos y plugins que realizan
funciones parecidas a CAD.
4.4 Analizar datos
Puede realizar anlisis de datos espaciales en bases de datos espaciales y otros formatos apoyados por OGR.
Actualmente QGIS ofrece anlisis de vectores, muestras, geoproesamiento, geometra y herramientas de manejo
de bases de datos. Tambin puedes usar las herramientas de GRASS integradas, que incluyen la funcionalidad
completa de GRASS y mas de 400 mdulos. (vea la seccin Integracion GRASS SIG.) O puede trabajar con el
complemento de Procesado, que proporciona un poderoso de marco de anlisis geoespacial nativo y algoritmos
de un tercero de QGIS como GDAL, SAGA, GRASS, fTools mas. (Vea seccin de Introduccin.)
4.5 Publicar mapas en Internet
QGIS se puede utilizar como un cliente WMS, WMTS, WMS-C o WFS y WFS-T, y como servidor WMS, WCS
o WFS (vea la seccin Trabajar con datos OGC.) Adems, se pueden publicar sus datos en Internet utilizando un
servidor web con UMN MapServer o GeoServer instalado.
4.6 Extender funcionalidades QGIS a travs de complementos
QGIS se puede adaptar a sus necesidades especiales con la arquitectura de complemento extensible y bibliotecas
que se pueden utilizar para crear complementos. Se puede incluso crear nuevas aplicaciones con C++ o Python.
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4.6.1 Complementos del Ncleo
Los complementos del ncleo incluyen:

1. Captura de coordenadas (captura las coordenadas del ratn en diferentes SRCs)
2. Administrador de BBDD (Intercambiar, editar y ver capas y tablas de/para base de datos; ejecute las con-
sultas SQL)
3. Dxf2Shp Converter (convierte DXF a archivos shape)
4. eVIS (Visualizar eventos)
5. fTools (Anliza y gestiona datos vectoriales)
6. GDALTools (Integrar herramientas GDAL en QGIS)
7. Georeferenciador GDAL (Aade informacin de la proyeccin para utilizar rster GDAL)
8. Herramientas GPS (cargar e importar datos de GPS)
9. GRASS (integrar el SIG GRASS)
10. Mapa de calor (Genera rster de mapa de calor de datos de punto)
11. Complemento de interpolacin (Interpolar basada en vrtices de una capa vectorial)
12. Cliente de Catlogo de metasearch
13. Edicin fuera de lnea (permite editar fuera de lnea y sincronizar con bases de datos)
14. GeoRaster Espacial de Oracle
15. Procesamiento (antiguamente SEXTANTE)
16. Anlisis del Terreno Rster (Analiza terreno a base de rster)
17. Complemento Grafo de rutas (Analiza una red de ruta ms corta)
18. Complemento de consulta espacial
19. Verificador de Topologa (encuentra errores topolgicos en una capa vectorial)
20. Complemento estadstico zonal (calcula recuento, suma y media de un rster por cada polgono de una capa
vectorial)
4.6.2 Complementos externos de Python
QGIS ofrece un nmero creciente de complementos Python externos que son proporcionados por la comunidad.
Estos se encuentran en el repositorio oficial de complementos y se pueden instalar fcilmente usando el instalador
del complemento Python. Vea la seccin El dilogo de complementos.
4.7 Consola de Python
Para scripting, es posible aprovechar la consola de Python integrado, que se puede abrir desde el men: Comple-
mentos -> Consola de Python. La consola se abre como una ventana de utilidad no modal. Para la interaccin con
el ambiente de QGIS, existe la variable qgis.utils.iface, que es una instancia de QgsInterface. Esta
interfaz permite el acceso a la vista del mapa, mens, barras de herramientas y otras partes de la aplicacin QGIS.
Se puede crear una script, despus, arrastrarlo a la ventana de QGIS y se ejecutar automticamente.
Para mayor informacin sobre cmo trabajar con la consola de Python y programar complementos y aplicaciones
QGIS, vea PyQGIS-Developer-Cookbook.
4.7. Consola de Python 9

4.8 Problemas Conocidos
4.8.1 Limitacin en el nmero de archivos abiertos
Si va a abrir un proyecto grande de QGIS y est seguro de que todas las capas son vlidas, pero algunas capas
se marcan como malas, es probable que se enfrentar a este problema. Linux (y otros sistemas operativos, as
mismo) tiene un lmite de archivos abiertos por proceso. Los lmites de recursos son por proceso y heredados. El
ulimit, que es una cscara integrada, cambia los lmites solamente para el proceso actual; el nuevo lmite ser
heredado por los procesos hijos.
Puede ver toda la informacin ulimit actual al escribir
user@host:~$ ulimit -aS
Se puede ver el nmero actual permitido de archivos abiertos por proceso con el siguiente comando en una consola
user@host:~$ ulimit -Sn
Para cambiar los lmites de una sesin existente, es posible que pueda usar algo como
user@host:~$ ulimit -Sn #number_of_allowed_open_files
user@host:~$ ulimit -Sn
user@host:~$ qgis
Para solucionarlo para siempre

En la mayora de los sistemas Linux, los lmites de recursos se establecen al iniciar sesin
por el mdulo pam_limits de acuerdo con los ajustes contenidos en:file:/etc/security/limits.conf o
/etc/security/limits.d/*.conf. Debe ser capaz de editar esos archivos si tiene privilegios de root
(tambin a travs de sudo), pero tendr que volver a iniciar sesin para que los cambios surtan efecto.
Ms informacin:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/ http://linuxaria.com/article/open-
files-in-linux?lang=en
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CHAPTER 5
Novedades de QGIS 2.14
Esta versin contiene nuevas caractersticas y se extiende la interfaz de programacin con respecto a versiones
anteriores. Le recomendamos que utilice esta versin sobre las versiones anteriores.
This release includes hundreds of bug fixes and many new features and enhancements over QGIS 2.8 that will be
described in this manual. You may also review the visual changelog at:
http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/index.html
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CHAPTER 6
Comenzar
This chapter gives a quick overview of installing QGIS, some sample data from the QGIS web page, and running
a first and simple session visualizing raster and vector layers.
6.1 Instalacin
Installation of QGIS is very simple. Standard installer packages are available for MS Windows and Mac OS X. For
many flavors of GNU/Linux, binary packages (rpm and deb) or software repositories are provided to add to your in-
stallation manager. Get the latest information on binary packages at the QGIS website at http://download.qgis.org.
6.1.1 Instalacin a partir de las fuentes
If you need to build QGIS from source, please refer to the installation instructions. They are dis-
tributed with the QGIS source code in a file called INSTALL. You can also find them online at
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html
6.1.2 Instalacin en medios extrables
QGIS allows you to define a --configpath option that overrides the default path for user configuration (e.g.,
~/.qgis2 under Linux) and forces QSettings to use this directory, too. This allows you to, for instance, carry a
QGIS installation on a flash drive together with all plugins and settings. See section Men Sistema for additional
information.
6.1.3 Datos de ejemplo
The user guide contains examples based on the QGIS sample dataset.
The Windows installer has an option to download the QGIS sample dataset. If checked, the data will be down-
loaded to your My Documents folder and placed in a folder called GIS Database. You may use Windows
Explorer to move this folder to any convenient location. If you did not select the checkbox to install the sample
dataset during the initial QGIS installation, you may do one of the following:
Usar datos SIG que ya tenga
Download sample data from http://qgis.org/downloads/data/qgis_sample_data.zip
Uninstall QGIS and reinstall with the data download option checked (only recommended if the above solu-
tions are unsuccessful)
For GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, there are not yet dataset installation packages available as rpm,
deb or dmg. To use the sample dataset, download the file qgis_sample_data as a ZIP archive from
http://qgis.org/downloads/data/ and unzip the archive on your system.
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El conjunto de datos de Alaska incluye todos los datos SIG que se usan para los ejemplos y capturas de pantalla
de la gua de usuario; tambin incluye una pequea base de datos de GRASS. La proyeccin del conjunto de datos
de QGIS es Alaska Albers Equal Area con unidades en pies. El cdigo EPSG es 2964.
PROJCS["Albers Equal Area",
GEOGCS["NAD27",
DATUM["North_American_Datum_1927",
SPHEROID["Clarke 1866",6378206.4,294.978698213898,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7008"]],
TOWGS84[-3,142,183,0,0,0,0],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
PROJECTION["Albers_Conic_Equal_Area"],
PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",55],
PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",65],
PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",50],
PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",-154],
PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
UNIT["us_survey_feet",0.3048006096012192]]
Si pretende usar QGIS como un visor grfico para GRASS, puede encontrar una seleccin de lo-
calizaciones de ejemplo (ej.., Spearfish o Dakota de Sur) en la web oficial de GRASS GIS,
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/sample-data/.
6.2 Lanzando QGIS
6.2.1 Starting and Stopping QGIS
Starting QGIS is done as you usually do for any other application on your platform. It means that you can launch
QGIS by:
typing qgis at a command prompt, assuming that QGIS is added to your PATH or youre in its installation
folder
using the Applications menu if using a precompiled binary, the Start menu or the Dock
doble clic el cono en su carpeta de Aplicaciones o atajo de escritorio
doble clic a un archivo de proyecto QGIS existente (.qgs). Note que esto tambin abrir el proyecto
Para detener QGIS, haga click:
the menu option Project Exit QGIS or use the shortcut Ctrl+Q
QGIS Quit QGIS, or use the shortcut Cmd+Q

or use the red cross at the right top corner of the main interface of the application.
6.2.2 Opciones de la lnea de rdenes
In previous section you learned how to start QGIS. You will see that QGIS also provides further command line
options.
QGIS supports a number of options when started from the command line. To get a list of the options, enter qgis
--help on the command line. The usage statement for QGIS is:
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qgis --help
QGIS - 2.6.0-Brighton Brighton (exported)
QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System.
Usage: /usr/bin/qgis.bin [OPTION] [FILE]
OPTION:
[--snapshot filename] emit snapshot of loaded datasets to given file
[--width width] width of snapshot to emit
[--height height] height of snapshot to emit
[--lang language] use language for interface text
[--project projectfile] load the given QGIS project
[--extent xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax] set initial map extent
[--nologo] hide splash screen
[--noversioncheck] dont check for new version of QGIS at startup
[--noplugins] dont restore plugins on startup
[--nocustomization] dont apply GUI customization
[--customizationfile] use the given ini file as GUI customization
[--optionspath path] use the given QSettings path
[--configpath path] use the given path for all user configuration
[--authdbdirectory path] use the given directory for authentication database
[--code path] run the given python file on load
[--defaultui] start by resetting user ui settings to default
[--dxf-export filename.dxf] emit dxf output of loaded datasets to given file
[--dxf-extent xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax] set extent to export to dxf
[--dxf-symbology-mode none|symbollayer|feature] symbology mode for dxf output
[--dxf-scale-denom scale] scale for dxf output
[--dxf-encoding encoding] encoding to use for dxf output
[--dxf-preset visiblity-preset] layer visibility preset to use for dxf output
[--help] this text
[--] treat all following arguments as FILEs
FILE:
Files specified on the command line can include rasters,
vectors, and QGIS project files (.qgs):
1. Rasters - supported formats include GeoTiff, DEM
and others supported by GDAL
2. Vectors - supported formats include ESRI Shapefiles
and others supported by OGR and PostgreSQL layers using
the PostGIS extension
Truco: Ejemplo usando argumentos de la lnea de rdenes

You can start QGIS by specifying one or more data files on the command line. For example, assuming you are
in the qgis_sample_data directory, you could start QGIS with a vector layer and a raster file set to load on
startup using the following command: qgis ./raster/landcover.img ./gml/lakes.gml
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --snapshot

Esta opcin permite crear una captura de pantalla en formato PNG de la vista actual. Esto es prctico cuando tiene
muchos proyectos y quiere generar capturas de pantalla de sus datos.
Actualmente genera un archivo PNG con 800x600 pxeles. Esto se puede ajustar usando los argumentoswidth
y --height en la lnea de rdenes. Se puede aadir un nombre de archivo despus de --snapshot.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --lang
Based on your locale, QGIS selects the correct localization. If you would like to change your language, you can
specify a language code. For example, qgis --lang it starts QGIS in Italian localization.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --project
Starting QGIS with an existing project file is also possible. Just add the command line option --project
followed by your project name and QGIS will open with all layers in the given file loaded.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --extent
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Use esta opcin para iniciar con una extensin de mapa especfica. Necesita aadir el cuadro delimitador de su
extensin en el siguiente orden, separado por una coma:
--extent xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --nologo

This command line argument hides the splash screen when you start QGIS.
command line option --noversioncheck
No revise nueva versin de QGIS al iniciar.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --noplugins
Si tiene problemas con los complementos al iniciar, puede evitar cargarlos con sta opcin. Estarn an disponibles
despus en el administrador de complementos. Opcinde la lnea de rdenes --customizationfile
Utilizando este argumento de lnea de rdenes puede definir un archivo de personalizacion de la GUI, que se
utilizar al iniciar.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --nocustomization
Utilizando este argumento de lnea de rdenes no se aplicar la personalizacin existente de la GUI.
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --optionspath
You can have multiple configurations and decide which one to use when starting QGIS with this option. See
Opciones to confirm where the operating system saves the settings files. Presently, there is no way to specify a file
to write settings to; therefore, you can create a copy of the original settings file and rename it. The option specifies
path to directory with settings. For example, to use /path/to/config/QGIS/QGIS2.ini settings file, use
option:
--optionspath /path/to/config/
Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --configpath

This option is similar to the one above, but furthermore overrides the default path for user configuration
(~/.qgis2) and forces QSettings to use this directory, too. This allows users to, for instance, carry a QGIS
installation on a flash drive together with all plugins and settings.
Command line option --authdbdirectory
Again, this option is similar to the one above but define the path to the directory where the authentication database
will be stored.
Opcin de lnea de comandos --cdigo
Esta opcin puede ser usada para ejecutar un archivo pyton dado despus de que ha iniciado QGIS.
Por ejemplo, cuando se tiene un archivo python llamado load_alaska.py con el siguiente contenido:
from qgis.utils import iface
raster_file = "/home/gisadmin/Documents/qgis_sample_data/raster/landcover.img"
layer_name = "Alaska"
iface.addRasterLayer(raster_file, layer_name)
Assuming you are in the directory where the file load_alaska.py is located, you can start QGIS, load the
raster file landcover.img and give the layer the name Alaska using the following command: qgis --code
load_alaska.py
Command line options --dxf-*
Estas opciones pueden usarse para exportar un proyecto QGIS en un archivo DXF. Varias opciones estn
disponibles:
dxf-export: the DXF filename into which to export the layers;
dxf-extent: the extent of the final DXF file;
dxf-symbology-mode: several values can be used here: none (no symbology), symbollayer (Symbol layer
symbology), feature (feature symbology);
dxf-scale-deno: the scale denominator of the symbology;
dxf-encoding: the file encoding;
dxf-preset: choose a visibility preset. These presets are defined in the layer tree, see Panel de Capas.
6.3 Sesin de Muestra: Cargar capas rster y vectorial
Now that you have QGIS installed and a sample dataset available, we would like to demonstrate a short and simple
QGIS sample session. We will visualize a raster and a vector layer. We will use:
the landcover raster layer i.e., qgis_sample_data/raster/landcover.img
and the lakes vector layer i.e., qgis_sample_data/gml/lakes.gml.
1. Iniciar QGIS tal como se ve en Starting and Stopping QGIS
Add Raster Layer

2. Click on the icon.
3. Navegue a la carpeta qgis_sample_data/raster/, seleccione el archivo ERDAS IMG
landcover.img y haga clic en [Abrir].
4. If the file is not listed, check if the Files of type combo box at the bottom of the dialog is set on the
right type, in this case Erdas Imagine Images (*.img *.IMG).
Add Vector Layer

5. Now click on the icon.
6. File should be selected as Source Type in the new Add vector layer dialog. Now click [Browse] to select
the vector layer.
7. Browse to the folder qgis_sample_data/gml/, select Geography Markup Language [GML]
[OGR] (*.gml *.GML) from the Filter combo box, then select the GML file lakes.gml and
click [Open]. In the Add vector layer dialog, click [OK]. The Coordinate Reference System Selector dialog
opens with NAD27 / Alaska Alberts selected, click [OK].
8. Zoom in a bit to your favourite area with some lakes.
9. Haga doble clic en la capa lakes en el panel Capas para abrir el dilogo Propiedades.
10. Clic en la pestaa Estilo y seleccionar un azul como color de relleno.
11. Click on the Labels tab and select Show labels for this layer in the drop-down menu to enable labeling.
Then from the Label with list, choose the NAMES field as the field containing labels.
12. To improve readability of labels, you can add a white buffer around them by clicking Buffer in the list on
the left, checking Draw text buffer and choosing 3 as buffer size.
13. Haga clik en [Aplicar]. Compruebe si el resultado le gusta y finalmente pulse [Aceptar].
You can see how easy it is to visualize raster and vector layers in QGIS. Lets move on to the sections that follow
to learn more about the available functionality, features and settings, and how to use them.
6.4 Proyectos
The state of your QGIS session is considered a project. QGIS works on one project at a time. Settings are
considered as being either per-project or as a default for new projects (see section Opciones). QGIS can save the
state of your workspace into a project file using the menu options Project Save or Project Save
As.... If the loaded project file on disk was meanwhile changed, by default, QGIS will ask you if you want to
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overwrite the changes into the project file. This behavior is set by checking Prompt to save project and data
source changes when required under Settings Options General menu .
Load saved projects into a QGIS session using Project Open..., Project New from template or Project
Open Recent .
At startup, a list of screenshot with the name and path of each of the most recent projects (up to ten) is shown
instead of a white and empty map canvas. This is a handy and quicker way to remember what a project was about
and double-click a row opens the selected project. If youre willing to create a new project, just add new layers
and the list disappears.
If you wish to clear your session and start fresh, choose Project New. Either of these menu options will
prompt you to save the existing project if changes have been made since it was opened or last saved.
El tipo de informacin guardada en el archivo de proyecto incluye:
Las capas aadidas
Que capas pueden ser consultadas
Propiedades de la capa, incluyendo simbolizacin y estilos
Proyeccin de la vista del mapa
ltima extensin vista
Diseador de impresin
Elementos de diseador de impresin con ajustes
Diseador de impresin configuracin de atlas
Configuracin de digitalizacin
Tabla de relaciones
Proyectos Macros
Proyecto de estilos predeterminados
Configuracin de complementos
Configuracin de servidor QGIS desde la pestaa de ajustes de OWS en propiedades del proyecto
Consultas almacenadas en el Administrador de BBDD
The project file is saved in XML format, so it is possible to edit the file outside QGIS if you know what you are
doing. The file format has been updated several times compared with earlier QGIS versions. Project files from
older QGIS versions may not work properly any more. To be made aware of this, in the General tab under Settings
Options you should tick Warn when opening a project file saved with an older version of QGIS.
Whenever you save a project in QGIS a backup of the project file is made with the extension .qgs~.
6.5 Salida
There are several ways to generate output from your QGIS session. We have discussed one already in section
Proyectos, saving as a project file. Here is a sampling of other ways to produce output files:
Menu option Project Save as Image... opens a file dialog where you select the name, path and type
of image (PNG, JPG and many other formats). A world file with extension PNGW or JPGW saved in the
same folder georeferences the image.
Menu option Project DXF Export... opens a dialog where you can define the Symbology mode, the
Symbology scale and vector layers you want to export to DXF. Through the Symbology mode symbols
from the original QGIS Symbology can be exported with high fidelity.
Menu option Project New Print Composer... opens a dialog where you can layout and print the
current map canvas (see section Diseadores de impresin).
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CHAPTER 7
IGU QGIS
When QGIS starts, you are presented with the GUI as shown in the figure (the numbers 1 through 5 in yellow
circles are discussed below).
Figure 7.1: QGIS GUI with Alaska sample data
Nota: Las decoraciones de las ventanas (barra de ttulo, etc.) pueden ser distintas dependiendo de su sistema
operativo y su gestor de ventanas.
The QGIS GUI is divided into five areas:

1. Barra de Men
2. Barras de herramientas
3. Paneles
4. Vista del mapa
5. Barra de Estado
These five components of the QGIS interface are described in more detail in the following sections. Two more
sections present keyboard shortcuts and context help.
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7.1 Barra de Men
The menu bar provides access to various QGIS features using a standard hierarchical menu. The top-level menus
and a summary of some of the menu options are listed below, together with the associated icons as they appear on
the toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts presented in this section are the defaults; however, keyboard
shortcuts can also be configured manually using the Configure shortcuts dialog, opened from Settings Configure
Shortcuts....
Aunque la mayora de las opciones tiene una herramienta correspondiente y viceversa, los mens no estn orga-
nizados exactamente como las barras de herramientas. La barra de herramientas que contiene la herramienta esta
listada despus de cada opcin de men como una entrada de casilla de verificacin. Algunas opciones de men
slo aparecen si se carga el complemento correspondiente. Para obtener ms informacin acerca de herramientas
y barra de herramientas, ver la seccin Barras de herramientas.
Nota: QGIS is a cross-platform application meaning that though it provides you with the same tools, they may be
placed in different menus according to the operating system specification. The lists below show the most common
location and precise when there is a variation.
7.1.1 Proyecto
Men Opcin Atajos Referencia Barra de herramietas

New Ctrl+N ver Proyectos Proyecto
Open Ctrl+O ver Proyectos Proyecto
Nuevo a partir de plantilla ver Proyectos
Open Recent ver Proyectos
Save Ctrl+S ver Proyectos Proyecto
Save As... Ctrl+Shift+S ver Proyectos Proyecto
Save as Image... ver Salida
DXF Export... ver Salida
Project Properties... Ctrl+Shift+P ver Proyectos
New Print Composer Ctrl+P ver Diseadores de impresin Proyecto
Composer manager... ver Diseadores de impresin Proyecto
Diseadores de impresin ver Diseadores de impresin
Exit QGIS Ctrl+Q
Under Mac OSX, the Exit QGIS command corresponds to QGIS Quit QGIS (Cmd+Q).
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7.1. Barra de Men 23

7.1.2 Editar
Men Opcin Atajos Referencia Barra de

herramietas
Undo Ctrl+Z ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Redo Ctrl+Shift+Z ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Cut Features Ctrl+X ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Copy Features Ctrl+C ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Paste Features Ctrl+V ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Pegar objetos espaciales como ver Trabajar con la tabla de
atributos
Add Feature Ctrl+. ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Move Feature(s) ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Delete Selected ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Rotate Feature(s) ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Simplify Feature ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin

Avanzada
Add Ring ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin

Avanzada
Add Part ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Fill Ring ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Delete Ring ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin

Avanzada
Delete Part ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin

Avanzada
Reshape Features ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Offset Curve ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Split Features ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Split Parts ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Merge Selected Features ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
Avanzada
Merge Attr. of Selected ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin
24Features Chapter
Avanzada7. IGU QGIS
Node Tool ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin

existente
Toggle editing
After activating mode for a layer, you will enable the Add Feature icon in the Edit menu
depending on the layer type (point, line or polygon).
7.1.3 Edicin (extra)

Add Feature ver Digitalizando una capa existente Digitalizacin

7.1.4 Ver

herramietas
Pan Map see Zooming and Panning Navegacin de
mapas
Pan Map to Selection Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom In Ctrl++ see Zooming and Panning Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom Out Ctrl+- see Zooming and Panning Navegacin de
mapas
Seleccionar ver Seleccionar y deseleccionar objetos Atributos
espaciales
Identify Features Ctrl+Shift+Isee Identificar objetos espaciales Atributos
Medir ver Mediciones Atributos
Statistical Summary see Statistical Summary Panel Atributos
Zoom Full Ctrl+Shift+F Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom To Layer Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom To Selection Ctrl+J Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom Last Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom Next Navegacin de
mapas
Zoom To Native Navegacin de
Resolution mapas
Ilustraciones ver Elementos decorativos
Modo Vista previa
Map Tips see Men de Despliegue Atributos
New Bookmark... Ctrl+B ver Marcadores espaciales Atributos
Show Bookmarks Ctrl+Shift+Bver Marcadores espaciales Atributos
Refresh F5 Navegacin de
mapas
Paneles ver Panels and Toolbars
Barras de ver Panels and Toolbars
herramientas
Toggle Full Screen Mode F11
Under Linux KDE, Panels , Toolbars and Toggle Full Screen Mode are rather placed in Settings menu.
Preview mode is not available under Mac OS X.

7.1.5 Capa

herramietas
Crear capa ver Crear nueva capa vectorial Administrar
Capas
Aadir capa see Formatos de datos Administrar
compatibles Capas
Embed Layers and Groups... ver Anidar proyectos
Add from Layer Definition File...
Copy style see Save and Share Layer
Properties
Paste style see Save and Share Layer
Properties
Open Attribute Table ver Trabajar con la tabla de Atributos
atributos
Toggle Editing ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Save Layer Edits ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Current Edits ver Digitalizando una capa Digitalizacin
existente
Save As... see Guardar capa en archivo
Save As Layer Definition File...
Remove Layer/Group Ctrl+D
Duplicate Layers (s)
Establecer escala de visibilidad
de las capas
Set CRS of Layer(s) Ctrl+Shift+C
Set project CRS from Layer
Properties... see El Dialogo de las Propiedades
del Vector
Filter... see Constructor de Consulta
Labeling ver Labels Menu
Add to Overview Ctrl+Shift+O Administrar
Capas
Add All To Overview
Remove All From Overview
Show All Layers Ctrl+Shift+U Administrar
Capas
Hide All Layers Ctrl+Shift+H Administrar
Capas
Show selected Layers
Hide selected Layers

7.1.6 Configuracin
Men Opcin Ata- Referencia Barra de

jos herramietas
Custom CRS... ver Sistema de referencia de coordenadas
personalizada
Administrador de ver El Administrador de estilos
estilos...
Configure
shortcuts...
Customization... ver Personalizacin
Options... ver Opciones
Snapping Options... ver Configurar la tolerancia del autoensamblado y
radio de bsqueda
Under Linux KDE, youll find more tools in Settings menu such as Project Properties, Panels , Toolbars
and Toggle Full Screen Mode.
7.1.7 Complementos

Manage and Install Plugins... ver El dilogo de complementos
Python Console Ctrl+Alt+P
When starting QGIS for the first time not all core plugins are loaded.
7.1.8 Vectorial

menuselection:Open Street Map > ver Cargar vectoriales OpenStreetMap
Herramientas de anlisis ver Complemento fTools
Herramientas de investigacin ver Complemento fTools
Herramientas de Geoproceso ver Complemento fTools
Herramientas de geometra ver Complemento fTools
Herramientas de gestin de datos ver Complemento fTools
7.1.9 Rster

Raster calculator... see Calculadora Rster
Align Raster... ver Raster Alignment
7.1.10 Base de datos

Base de datos ver Complemento administrador de BBDD Base de datos

7.1.11 Web

Metasearch ver metabuscador Web
7.1.12 Procesado

herramietas
Toolbox ver La caja de herramientas
Graphical ver Modelador grfico
Modeler...
History and ver El administrador del historial

log...
Options... ver Configurar el entorno de trabajo de
procesamiento
Results viewer... ver Configurar aplicaciones externas
Commander Ctrl+Alt+M ver La lnea de rdenes de QGIS
7.1.13 Ayuda

Help Contents F1 Ayuda
Whats This? Shift+F1 Ayuda
API Documentation
Report an Issue
Need commercial support?
QGIS Home Page Ctrl+H
Check QGIS Version
About
QGIS Sponsors
7.1.14 QGIS
This menu is only available under Mac OS X and contains some OS related commands.
Men Opcin Atajos Referencia
Preferences
About QGIS
Hide QGIS
Show All
Hide Others
Quit QGIS Cmd+Q
Preferences and About QGIS are the same commands as Settings Options and Help About. Quit QGIS
corresponds to Project Exit QGIS under the other platforms.

7.2 Panels and Toolbars
From the View menu (Settings under KDE), you can switch on and off QGIS widgets (Panels ) or toolbars
(Toolbars ). You can (de)activate any of them by right-clicking the menu bar or a toolbar and choose the item
you want. Each panel or toolbar can be moved and placed wherever you feel comfortable with in QGIS interface.
The list can also be extended with the activation of Core or external plugins.
7.2.1 Barras de herramientas
La barra de herramientas proporciona acceso a la mayora de las mismas funciones como las de los mens, y
herramientas adicionales para interactuar con el mapa. Cada elemento de la barra de herramientas tiene ayuda
emergente disponible. Mantenga el puntero del ratn sobre el elemento y una breve descripcin del propsito de
la herramienta se mostrar.
Every toolbar can be moved around according to your needs. Additionally, they can be switched off using the
right mouse button context menu, or by holding the mouse over the toolbars.
Figure 7.2: The Toolbars menu
Truco: Restauracin de barras de herramientas

If you have accidentally hidden a toolbar, you can get it back by choosing menu option View Toolbars (or
Settings Toolbars under Linux KDE). If for some reason a toolbar (or any other widget) totally disappears
from the interface, youll find tips to get it back at restoring initial GUI.
7.2.2 Paneles
QGIS provides by default many panels to work with.

Figure 7.3: The Panels menu
Some of these panels are described below while others may be found in different parts of the document, namely:
the Browser Panel
the Advanced Digitizing Panel
the Spatial Bookmarks Panel
the GPS Information Panel
the Tile Scale Panel
the Identify Panel
the User Input Panel
Panel de Capas
The layers panel lists all the layers in the project. The checkbox in each legend entry can be used to show or hide
the layer. The toolbar in the layers panel allows you to:
Add new group

Manage Visibility
: control visibility of layers and preset layers combination
Filter Legend by Map Content

: only the layers that are set visible and whose features intersect the current map
canvas have their style rendered in the layers panel. Otherwise, a generic NULL symbol is applied to the
layer. Based on the layer symbology, this is a convenient way to identify which kind of features from which
layers cover your area of interest.
Filter Legend by Expression

: helps you apply an expression to remove from the selected layer tree styles that
have no feature satisfying the condition. This can be used for example to highlight features that are within
a given area/feature of another layer. From the drop-down list, you can edit and clear the expression set.
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Expand All Collapse All

or layers and groups in the layers panel.
Remove Layer/Group
and currently selected.
The button allows you to add Presets views in the legend. Presets are a way to save and easily restore a
combination of layers with their current style. To add a preset view, just set visible the layers you want, with their
desired symbology, and click on button. Choose Add Preset... from the drop-down menu and give a name to
the preset. The added preset is listed at the bottom of the drop-down menu and is recalled by clicking on it.
The Replace Preset option helps you overwrite a preset content with the current map view while the Remove
Current Preset button deletes the active preset.
Todos los preestablecidos aadidos estn presentes en el diseo de impresin con el fin de permitirle crear un
diseo de mapa en base a sus puntos de vista especficos (ver Main properties).
Nota: Tools to manage the layers panel are also available to layout the map and legend items of the print composer
Una capa se puede seleccionar y arrastrar hacia arriba o hacia abajo en la leyenda para cambiar el orden. El orden-
z significa que las capas enlistadas ms cerca de la parte superior de la leyenda son dibujadas sobre las capas que
figuran ms abajo en la leyenda.
Nota: This behavior can be overridden by the Layer Order panel.
Layers in the legend window can be organized into groups. There are two ways to do this:
1. Press the icon to add a new group. Type in a name for the group and press Enter. Now click on an
existing layer and drag it onto the group.
2. Seleccionar algunas capas, al hacer clic derecho en la ventana de la leyenda y elegir Grupo Seleccionado.
Las capas seleccionadas sern colocadas automticamente en un nuevo grupo.
Para llevar una capa fuera de un grupo, puede arrastrar hacia afuera , o haga clic derecho sobre l y elija Subir
elemento al nivel superior.
La casilla de verificacin para un grupo mostrar u ocultar todas las capas en el grupo al hacer clic.
El contenido del men contextual del botn derecho depende si el elemento de leyenda seleccionada es un rster
Botn de edicin
o una capa vectorial. Para las capas vectoriales de GRASS , no est disponible. Vea la seccin
Digitalizar y editar una capa vectorial GRASS para obtener informacin sobre la edicin de capas vectoriales de
GRASS.
Below are listed available options in context menu depending on the selected item.

Option Capa Vectorial Capa Rster Group

Zoom to Layer/Group
Show in Overview
Zoom to Native Resolution (100%)
Stretch Using Current Extent
Eliminar
Duplicate
Establecer escala de visibilidad de la capa
Set Layer/Group CRS
Establecer SRC del proyecto a partir de capa
Estilos
Copy Style
Pegar estilo
Open Attribute Table
Toggle Editing
Current Edits (in Edit mode)
Save As...
Save As Layer Definition File...
Filtrar
Show Feature Count
Propiedades
Mover al nivel superior
Cambiar nombre
Grupo seleccionado
Propiedades
Set Group WMS Data
Mutually Exclusive Group
Add Group
Enabling the Mutually Exclusive Group option you can make a group have only one layer visible at the same
time. Whenever a layer within the group is set visible the others will be toggled not visible.
Es posible seleccionar mas de una capa o grupo al mismo tiempo manteniendo presionada la tecla Ctrl mientras
selecciona las capas con el botn izquierdo del ratn. Despus puede mover todas las capas a un nuevo grupo al
mismo tiempo.
You may also delete more than one layer or group at once by selecting several items with the Ctrl key and
pressing Ctrl+D afterwards. This way, all selected layers or groups will be removed from the layers list.
Editing vector layer style
From the Layers panel, you have shortcuts to easily and quickly edit the layer rendering. Right-click on a vector
layer and select Styles > in the list in order to:
see the currently applied styles to the layer. In case you defined many styles for the layer, you can switch
from one to another and have your layer rendering automatically updated in the map canvas.
copy the current style, and when applicable, paste a copied style from another layer
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rename the current style, add a new one (which is actually a copy of the current one) or delete the current
style (when multiple styles available).
Nota: The previous options are also available for raster layer.
Whether the features in the vector layer have all the same unique symbol or they are classified (in that case, the
layer is displayed in a tree structure with each class as sub-item), the following options are available at layer level
or class level:
a Edit Symbol... button to open the El Selector de Smbolo dialog and update any property (symbol, size,
color...) of the layer or feature symbol. Double-clicking on a feature does also open the Symbol Selector
dialog.
a Selector de color widget with a Color Wheel from which you can click a color and have it automatically
update the symbol fill color. For convenience, Recent colors are available at the bottom of the color wheel.
a Show All Items and Hide All Items to toggle on or off the visibility of all the classes of features.
This avoids (un)checking items one by one.
Truco: Quickly share a layer style

From the context menu, copy the style of a layer and paste it to a group or a selection of layers: the style is applied
to all the layers that are of the same type (vector vs raster) as the original layer and, in case of vector, have the
same geometry type (point, line or polygon).
Trabajar con el orden de la leyenda de la capa independiente
There is a panel that allows you to define an independent drawing order for the layers panel. You can activate it in
the menu Settings Panels Layer Order Panel. This feature allows you to, for instance, order your layers in
order of importance, but still display them in the correct order (see figure_layer_order). Checking the Control
rendering order box underneath the list of layers will cause a revert to default behavior.
Figure 7.4: Define a legend independent layer order

Statistical Summary Panel
This panel can show some statistics on a specific vector layers. The panel allows users to choose:
the vector layer;
the column or the expression;
filter statistics to selected features;
refresh the informations;
the statistics information to display with the bottom right button;
QGIS Overview Panel
In QGIS, you can use an overview panel that provides a full extent view of layers added to it. Within the view is
a rectangle showing the current map extent. This allows you to quickly determine which area of the map you are
currently viewing. Note that labels are not rendered to the map overview even if the layers in the map overview
have been set up for labelling. If you click and drag the red rectangle in the overview that shows your current
extent, the main map view will update accordingly.
Panel de mensajes del registro
When loading or processing some operations, you can track and follow messages that appear in different tabs
using the Log Messages Panel. It can be activated using the most right icon in the bottom status bar.
Panel deshacer/rehacer
For each layer being edited, this panel shows the list of actions done, allowing to quickly undo a set of actions by
simply selecting the action listed above.
7.3 Vista del mapa
Also called Map canvas, this is the business end of QGIS maps are displayed in this area. The map displayed
in this window will depend on the vector and raster layers you have chosen to load (see sections that follow for
more information on how to load layers). The map view can be panned, shifting the focus of the map display
to another region, and it can be zoomed in and out. Various other operations can be performed on the map as
described in the label_toolbars description above. The map view and the legend are tightly bound to each other
the maps in view reflect changes you make in the legend area.
Truco: Zum al mapa con la rueda del ratn

Puede utilizar la rueda del ratn para acercar y alejar zum en el mapa. Coloque el cursor del ratn dentro del mapa
y gire la rueda hacia adelante (hacia la derecha) para acercar y hacia atrs (hacia usted) para alejarlo. El zum se
centra en la posicin del cursor del ratn. Puede personalizar el comportamiento del zum de la rueda del ratn
usando la pestaa Herramientas del mapa bajo el men Configuracin Opciones
Truco: Desplazar el mapa con las teclas de direccin y barra de espaciadora

Puede utilizar las teclas de flechas para desplazar el mapa. Coloque el cursor dentro del mapa y haga clic en la
tecla de flecha a la derecha para desplazarse al este, tecla de flecha izquierda para el oeste, flecha arriba para el
norte y flecha abajo al sur. Puede tambin desplazar el mapa utilizando la barra espaciadora o al hacer clic en la
rueda del ratn: basta con mover el ratn mientras mantiene pulsada la barra espaciadora o haga clic en la rueda
del ratn.
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7.4 Barra de Estado
The status bar provides you with general information about the map view, and actions processed or available and
offers you tools to manage the map view.
On the left side of the status bar, you can get a summary of actions youve done (such as selecting features in
a layer, removing layer) or a long description of the tool you are hovering over (not available for all tools). On
startup, the bar status also informs you about availability of new or upgradeable plugins (if checked in Plugin
Manager settings).
In case of lengthy operations, such as gathering of statistics in raster layers or rendering several layers in map
view, a progress bar is displayed in the status bar to show the current progress of the action.
The Coordinate option shows the current position of the mouse, following it while moving across the map
view. You can set the unit (and precision) to use in the project properties, General tab. Click on the small button
at the left of the textbox to toggle between the Coordinate option and the Extents option that displays in map
units, the coordinates of the current lower leftmost and upper rightmost points of the map view, as you pan and
zoom in and out.
Next to the coordinate display you will find the Scale display. It shows the scale of the map view. If you zoom in
or out, QGIS shows you the current scale. There is a scale selector, which allows you to choose among predefined
and custom scales to assign to the map view.
A la derecha de la escala desplegada se puede definir una rotacin horaria actual de su vista de mapa en grados.
On the right side of the status bar, there is a small checkbox which can be used to temporarily prevent layers being
rendered to the map view (see section Renderizado).
Current CRS:
To the right of the render functions, you find the icon with the EPSG code of the current project
CRS. Clicking on this lets you Enable on the fly CRS transformation properties for the current project and apply
another CRS to the map view.
Messages
Finally, the button opens the Log Messages Panel which informs you on underlying process (QGIS
startup, plugins loading, processing tools...)
Truco: Calcular la escala correcta de su lienzo de mapa

When you start QGIS, the default CRS is WGS 84 (epsg 4326) and units are degrees. This means that QGIS
will interpret any coordinate in your layer as specified in degrees. To get correct scale values, you can either
manually change this setting, e.g. to meters, in the General tab under Project Project Properties, or you can
Current CRS:
use the icon seen above. In the latter case, the units are set to what the project projection specifies
(e.g., +units=us-ft).
Note that CRS choice on startup can be set in Settings Options CRS.

CHAPTER 8
Herramientas generales
8.1 Teclas de acceso rpido
QGIS proporciona atajos de teclado predeterminados para muchas caractersticas. Puede encontrarlos en la sec-
cin Barra de Men. Adems, la opcin de men Configuracin Configurar atajos de teclado... permite
cambiar los atajos de teclado predeterminados y agregar otros nuevos a las caractersticas de QGIS.
Figure 8.1: Definir opciones de atajo
Configuration is very simple. Just select a feature from the list and click on :
[Change] and press the new combination you want to assign as new shortcut
[Set none] to clear any assigned shortcut
or [Set default] to backup the shortcut to its original and default value.
Once you have finished your configuration, you can save it as an XML file and load it to another QGIS installation.
8.2 Ayuda de contexto
Cuando necesite ayuda sobre un tema especifico, puede acceder a la ayuda de contexto mediante el botn [Ayuda]
disponible en la mayora de dilogos tenga en cuenta que los complementos de terceros pueden apuntar a paginas
web dedicadas.
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8.3 Renderizado
By default, QGIS renders all visible layers whenever the map canvas is refreshed. The events that trigger a refresh
of the map canvas include:
Aadir una capa
Desplazar o hacer zoom
Redimensionando la ventana QGIS
Cambiar la visibilidad de una o varias capas
QGIS le permite controlar el proceso de representacin de varias maneras.
8.3.1 Renderizado dependiente de la escala
El renderizado dependiente de la escala le permite especificar las escalas mnima y mxima a las que una capa
ser visible. Para establecer el renderizado dependiente de la escala, abra el dilogo Propiedades mediante doble
clic en una capa en el panel Capas. En la pestaa General, haga clic en la casilla Visibilidad dependiente de la
escala para activar la caracterstica, luego establezca los valores mnimo y mximo de escala.
You can determine the scale values by first zooming to the level you want to use and noting the scale value in the
QGIS status bar.
8.3.2 Controlar el renderizado del mapa
Map rendering can be controlled in various ways, as described below.
Suspender el renderizado
To suspend rendering, click the Render checkbox in the lower right corner of the status bar. When the
Render checkbox is not checked, QGIS does not redraw the canvas in response to any of the events described in
section Renderizado. Examples of when you might want to suspend rendering include:
Aadir muchas capas y simbolizarlas antes de dibujar
Aadir una o ms capas grandes y establecer la dependencia de escala antes de dibujar
Aadir una o ms capas grandes y hacer zoom a una vista especfica antes de dibujar
Cualquier combinacin de la anteriores
Marcar la casilla Renderizar habilita el renderizado y origina un refresco inmediato del lienzo del mapa.
Configurar la opcin de aadir una capa
Puede establecer una opcin para cargar siempre las nuevas capas sin dibujarlas. Esto significa que las capas se
aadirn al mapa pero su casilla de visibilidad en el panel Capas no estar marcada de forma predeterminada.
Para establecer esta opcin, seleccione la opcin de men Configuracin Opciones y haga clic en la pestaa
Representacin. Desmarque la casilla Por omisin, las nuevas capas aadidas al mapa se deben visualizar.
Cualquier capa aadida posteriormente al mapa estar desactivada (invisible) por omisin.
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Detener el renderizado
Para detener el dibujado del mapa, presione la tecla ESC. Esto detendr el refresco del lienzo del mapa y dejar el
mapa parcialmente dibujado. Puede que tarde un poco desde que se presiona la tecla ESC hasta que se detenga el
dibujado del mapa.
Nota: Actualmente no es posible detener la representacin esto se desactiv en el paso a Qt4 debido a
problemas y cuelgues de la Interfaz de Usuario (IU).
Influir en la calidad del renderizado
QGIS has an option to influence the rendering quality of the map. Choose menu option Settings Options, click
on the Rendering tab and select or deselect Make lines appear less jagged at the expense of some drawing
performance.
Acelerar renderizado
There are some settings that allow you to improve rendering speed. Open the QGIS options dialog using Settings
Options, go to the Rendering tab and select or deselect the following checkboxes:
Usar cacheado de representacin cuando sea posible para acelerar redibujados
Render layers in parallel using many CPU cores and then set the Max cores to use.
The map renders in the background onto a separate image and each Map Update interval, the content
from this (off-screen) image will be taken to update the visible screen representation. However, if rendering
finishes faster than this duration, it will be shown instantaneously.
With Enable Feature simplification by default for newly added layers, you simplify features geometry
(less nodes) and as a result, they quickly display. Be aware that you can also face rendering inconsistencies.
8.4 Selector de color
The select color dialog will appear whenever you push the icon to choose a color. The
features of this dialog depends on the state of the Use native color chooser dialogs parameter checkbox in Settings
Options General menu. When checked, the color dialog used is the one of the OS being used. Otherwise,
QGIS custom color chooser is used.
color ramp color wheel color swatches

This dialog has four different tabs which allow you to select colors by , ,
color picker
or (not available under ).
Whatever method you use, the selected color is always described through color sliders for HSV (Hue, Saturation,
Value) and RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values. There is also an opacity slider to set transparency level. On the lower
left part of the dialog you can see a comparison between the current and the new color you are presently selecting
and on the lower right part you have the option to add the color you just tweaked into a color slot button.
Truco: Dynamically change the color with the live-updating option

Check the Use live-updating color chooser dialogs option in the General Settings to have the color applied to your
items as you change color parameters in the QGIS custom color chooser dialog.
color ramp color wheel

With or with , you can browse to all possible color combinations. There are other
color swatches
possibilities though. By using you can choose from a preselected list. This selected list is populated
with one of three methods:
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Figure 8.2: Color selector ramp tab
Recent colors,
Standard colors, a user-defined list of colors set under Settings Options Colors menu
or Project colors, a user-defined list of colors set under Project Project Properties Default Styles.
Figure 8.3: Color selector switcher tab
color picker
Another option is to use the which allows you to sample a color from under your mouse pointer at
any part of QGIS or even from another application by pressing the space bar. Please note that the color picker is
OS dependent and is currently not supported by OSX.
Truco: quick color picker + copy/paste colors

You can quickly choose from Recent colors, from Standard colors or simply copy or paste a color by clicking the
drop-down arrow that follows the color box.

Figure 8.4: Men seleccionador rpido de color
8.5 Modos de Mezcla
QGIS offers different options for special rendering effects with these tools that you may previously only know
from graphics programs. Blending modes can be applied on layers, on features but also on print composer items:
Normal: This is the standard blend mode, which uses the alpha channel of the top pixel to blend with the
pixel beneath it. The colors arent mixed.
Lighten: This selects the maximum of each component from the foreground and background pixels. Be
aware that the results tend to be jagged and harsh.
Screen: Light pixels from the source are painted over the destination, while dark pixels are not. This mode
is most useful for mixing the texture of one item with another item (e.g., you can use a hillshade to texture
another layer).
Dodge: Dodge will brighten and saturate underlying pixels based on the lightness of the top pixel. So,
brighter top pixels cause the saturation and brightness of the underlying pixels to increase. This works best
if the top pixels arent too bright; otherwise the effect is too extreme.
Addition: This blend mode simply adds pixel values of one item with the other. In case of values above
one (in the case of RGB), white is displayed. This mode is suitable for highlighting features.
Darken: This creates a resultant pixel that retains the smallest components of the foreground and back-
ground pixels. Like lighten, the results tend to be jagged and harsh.
Multiply: Here, the numbers for each pixel of the top item are multiplied with the corresponding pixels for
the bottom item. The results are darker pictures.
Burn: Darker colors in the top item cause the underlying items to darken. Burn can be used to tweak and
colorise underlying layers.
Overlay: This mode combines the multiply and screen blending modes. In the resulting picture, light parts
become lighter and dark parts become darker.
Soft light: This is very similar to overlay, but instead of using multiply/screen it uses color burn/dodge. This
is supposed to emulate shining a soft light onto an image.
Hard light: Hard light is also very similar to the overlay mode. Its supposed to emulate projecting a very
intense light onto an image.
Difference: Difference subtracts the top pixel from the bottom pixel, or the other way around, to always get
a positive value. Blending with black produces no change, as the difference with all colors is zero.
Subtract: This blend mode simply subtracts pixel values of one item from the other. In case of negative
values, black is displayed.
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8.6 Zooming and Panning
QGIS provides tools to zoom and pan to your area of interest.
pan zoom-in zoom-out

Apart from using the and / icons on the toolbar with the mouse, navigating can also
be done with the mouse wheel, spacebar and the arrow keys.
8.6.1 Zooming and panning with the mouse wheel
You can press the mouse wheel to pan inside of the main window, and you can roll the mouse wheel to zoom
in and out on the map. For zooming, place the mouse cursor inside the map area and roll it forward (away from
you) to zoom in and backwards (towards you) to zoom out. The mouse cursor position will be the center of the
zoomed area of interest. You can customize the behavior of the mouse wheel zoom using the Map tools tab under
the Settings Options menu.
8.6.2 Panning with the arrow keys
Panning the map is possible with the arrow keys. Place the mouse cursor inside the map area, and click on the
right arrow key to pan east, left arrow key to pan west, up arrow key to pan north, and down arrow key to pan
south.
You can also use the space bar to temporarily cause mouse movements to pan the map. The PgUp and PgDown
keys on your keyboard will cause the map display to zoom in or out.
8.7 Mediciones
QGIS provides four means of measuring geometries:
the interactive measurement tools ,

Field Calculator
measuring in the ,
derived measures in the Identificar objetos espaciales tool,
and a vector analysis tool: Vector Geometry Tools Export/Add Geometry Columns
Measuring works within projected coordinate systems (e.g., UTM) and unprojected data. The first three measuring
tools behave equally to global project settings:
If on the fly CRS transformation is enabled, the default measurement metric is - different from most other GIS -
ellipsoidal, using the ellipsoid defined in File Project properties General. This is true both when geographic
and projected coordinate systems are defined for the project. If you want to calculate the projected / planimetric
area or distance using cartesian maths, the measurement ellipsoid has to be set to None / Planimetric (File
Project properties CRS). However, with a geographic (= unprojected) CRS defined for the data and project, area
and distance measurement will be ellipsoidal. If on the fly CRS transformation is disabled, the measurement
metric is planimetric when the project coordinate system is projected and ellipsoidal when the project coordinate
system is unprojected / geographic.
However, neither the identify tool nor the field calculator will transform your data to the project CRS before
measuring. If you want to achieve this, you have to use the vector analysis tool: Vector Geometry Tools
Export/Add Geometry Columns. Here, measurement is by default planimetric except if you choose the ellipsoidal
measure.

8.7.1 Measure length, areas and angles interactive
All measuring modules use the snapping settings from the digitizing module. This is useful, if you want to measure
along lines or areas in vector layers.
To select a measuring tool, click on and select the tool you want to use.
Measure Line
By default, : QGIS measures real distances between given points according to a defined ellipsoid.
You can define a rubberband color and your preferred measurement units (meters or feet) and angle units (degrees,
radians and gon) in the menu option Settings Options Map Tools. The tool then allows you to click points
on the map. Each segment length, as well as the total, shows up in the measure window. To stop measuring,
click your right mouse button. Note that you can interactively change the measurement units in the measurement
dialog. It overrides the Preferred measurement units in the options. There is an info section in the dialog that
shows which CRS settings are being used during measurement calculations.
Figure 8.5: Medir Distancia
Measure Area
: Areas can also be measured. In the measure window, the accumulated area size appears. In
addition, the measuring tool will snap to the currently selected layer, provided that layer has its snapping tolerance
set (see section Configurar la tolerancia del autoensamblado y radio de bsqueda). So, if you want to measure
exactly along a line feature, or around a polygon feature, first set its snapping tolerance, then select the layer. Now,
when using the measuring tools, each mouse click (within the tolerance setting) will snap to that layer.
Figure 8.6: Medir rea
Measure Angle
: You can also measure angles. The cursor becomes cross-shaped. Click to draw the first segment
of the angle you wish to measure, then move the cursor to draw the desired angle. The measure is displayed in a
pop-up dialog.
Figure 8.7: Medir ngulo
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8.8 Seleccionar y deseleccionar objetos espaciales
The QGIS toolbar provides several tools to select features in the map canvas. To select one or several features,
just click on and select your tool:
Select Features by area or single click

to select feature(s) either by simple click or by rectangle
Select Features by Polygon

Select Features by Freehand

Select Features by Radius

Deselect Features from All Layers
To deselect all selected features, click on .
Select features using an expression
allows user to select features using expression dialog. See Expresiones chapter for
some example.
Users can save selected features into a New Memory Vector Layer or a New Vector Layer using Edit Copy
Features and Edit Paste Features as in the wanted format.
8.9 Data defined override setup
Beside many options in the vector layer properties dialog or settings in the print composer, you can find a
Data defined override
icon. Thanks to expressions based on layer attributes or item settings, prebuild or custom functions
and variables, this tool allows you to set dynamic value for the concerned parameter. When enabled, the value
returned by this widget is applied to the parameter regardless its normal value (checkbox, textbox, slider...).

Clicking the icon shows:
a Description ... that indicates if it is enabled, which input expected, valid input type and the current
definition,
an entry to list the Field type available,
an entry to list the Variable available,
Edit ... button to create or edit the expression to use,
Paste and Copy buttons,
Clear button to remove the setup.
Truco: When the data-defined override option is setup correctly the icon is yellow or ; if it is broken, the
icon is red or .
Parameters that can be used with data-defined tools are:

Style and symbols parameters
Parmetros de Etiquetas
Composer parameters

8.10 Identificar objetos espaciales
The Identify tool allows you to interact with the map canvas and get information on features in a pop-up window.
Identify features
To identify features, use View Identify features or press Ctrl + Shift + I, or click the
icon on the Attributes toolbar.
Identify features
QGIS offers two ways to identify features with the tool:
left click will identify features according to the mode set in the Identify results panel
right click will fetch all the snapped features from all the visible layers. This will open a context menu,
allowing the user to choose more precisely the features to identify.
If you click on feature(s), the Identify results dialog will list information about the clicked feature(s). The default
view is a tree view where the first item is the name of the layer and its children are its identified feature(s). Each
feature is described by the name of a field along with its value. This field is the one set in Properties Display.
Then follows all the other information about the feature.
Esta ventana puede ser personalizada para mostrar campos personalizados, pero por omisin mostrar tres tipos
de informacin:
Actions: Actions can be added to the identify feature windows. The action is run by clicking on the action
label. By default, only one action is added, namely view feature form for editing. You can define
more actions in the layers properties dialog.
Derived: This information is calculated or derived from other information. This includes the feature id,
its length or perimeter and area in map units depending on its geometry, the count of spatial parts and the
number of the clicked part in case of multi-geometry, the count of vertices in the feature and the number of
the closest one to the point clicked. It also reports the X and Y (and Z/M if available) coordinate values of
both clicked point and feature closest vertex.
Data attributes: This is the list of attribute fields and values for the feature that has been clicked.
Figure 8.8: Dilogo identificar objetos
At the top of the window, you have seven icons:
Expand tree

Collapse tree

Default behavior
to define whether next identified features information should be collapsed or expanded
View the feature form

Clear Results

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Copy selected feature to clipboard

Print selected HTML response

At the bottom of the window, you have the Mode and View comboboxes. With the Mode combobox you can define
from which layers features should be identified:
Current layer : only features from the selected layer are identified. The layer may not be visible in the
canvas.
Top down, stop at first: for only features from the upper visible layer.
Top down: for all features from the visible layers. The results are shown in the panel.
and Layer selection: opens a context menu where the user selects the layer to identify features from.
Operates like a right-click. Only the chosen features will be shown in the result panel.
The View can be set as Tree, Table or Graph. Table and Graph views can only be set for raster layers.
The identify tool allows you to auto open a form. If checked, each time a single feature is identified QGIS will
open a form showing its attributes. This is a handy way to quickly edit a features attributes.
Otras funciones se pueden encontrar en el men contextual del elemento identificado. Por ejemplo, del men
contextual se puede:
Ver el formulario del objeto espacial
Zum a objeto espacial
Copiar objeto espacial: Copiar toda la geometra y atributos del objeto espacial
Toggle feature selection: Adds identified feature to selection
Copiar el valor del atributo: copiar solo el valor del atributo sobre el cual se hizo clic
Copiar atributos del objeto espacial: Copiar atributos del objeto espacial
Limpiar resultados: quitar resultados de la ventana
Limpiar resaltados: Deseleccionar los objetos espaciales en el mapa
Resaltar todo
Resaltar capa
Activar capa: Elegir una capa para ser activada
Propiedades de la capa: Abrir la ventana de propiedades de la capa.
Expandir todo
Colapsar todo
8.11 Herramientas de anotaciones
Text Annotation
The tool in the attribute toolbar provides the possibility to place formatted text in a balloon on the
QGIS map canvas. Use the Text Annotation tool and click into the map canvas.
Haciendo doble clic sobre el elemento se abre un cuadro de dilogo con varias opciones. Hay un editor de texto
para escribir el texto con formato y otros ajustes de elementos. Por ejemplo, existe la opcin de tener el elemento
colocado en una posicin del mapa (mostrado por el smbolo del marcador) o tener el elemento en una posicin
de la pantalla (no relacionado con el mapa). El elemento se puede mover por la posicin del mapa (al arrastrar el
marcador del mapa) o moviendo solo el globo. Los iconos son parte del tema de los SIG, y se utilizan de forma
predeterminada en otros temas tambin.
Move Annotation
The tool allows you to move the annotation on the map canvas.

Figure 8.9: Dilogo de texto de anotacin
8.11.1 Anotaciones HTML
Html Annotation
The tools in the attribute toolbar provides the possibility to place the content of an html file in a
balloon on the QGIS map canvas. Using the Html Annotation tool, click into the map canvas and add the path to
the html file into the dialog.
8.11.2 Anotaciones SVG
SVG Annotation
The tool in the attribute toolbar provides the possibility to place an SVG symbol in a balloon on
the QGIS map canvas. Using the SVG Annotation tool, click into the map canvas and add the path to the SVG file
into the dialog.
8.11.3 Anotaciones de formulario
Form Annotation
Additionally, you can also create your own annotation forms. The tool is useful to display
attributes of a vector layer in a customized Qt Designer form (see figure_custom_annotation). This is similar
to the designer forms for the Identify features tool, but displayed in an annotation item. Also see this video
https://youtu.be/0pDBuSbQ02o?t=2m25s from Tim Sutton for more information.
Nota: Si presiona Ctrl+T mientras est activa una herramienta Anotacin (mover anotacin, anotacin de texto,
anotacin de formulario), se invierten los estados de visibilidad de los elementos.
8.12 Marcadores espaciales
Spatial Bookmarks allow you to bookmark a geographic location and return to it later. Bookmarks are saved on
the computer, meaning that they are available from any project in the same computer.
8.12.1 Crear un marcador
Para crear un marcador:
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Figure 8.10: Customized qt designer annotation form
1. Hacer zoom o desplazarse al rea de inters.

2. Select the menu option View New Bookmark or press Ctrl-B. The Spatial Bookmark panel opens with
the newly created bookmark.
3. Introduzca un nombre descriptivo para el marcador (hasta 255 caracteres).
4. Press Enter to add the bookmark or click elsewhere.
Tenga en cuenta que puede tener mltiples marcadores con el mismo nombre.
8.12.2 Trabajar con marcadores
To use or manage bookmarks, select the menu option View Show Bookmarks. The Spatial Bookmarks panel
allows you to:
Zoom to a Bookmark: select the desired bookmark and then click Zoom To Bookmark. You can also zoom
to a bookmark by double-clicking on it.
Delete a Bookmark: select the bookmark and click Delete Bookmark. Confirm your choice.
Import or Export a bookmark: To share or transfer your bookmarks between computers you can use the
Import/Export Bookmarks pull down menu in the Spatial Bookmarks dialog. All the bookmarks are trans-
ferred.
8.13 Anidar proyectos
Si se quiere incluir contenido de otros proyectos en un proyecto, se puede elegir Capa Empotrar capas y
grupos.
8.13.1 Empotrar capas
El siguiente cuadro de dilogo le permite incluir capas de otros proyectos. Aqu un pequeo ejemplo:
1. Press to look for a project from the Alaska dataset.

2. Select the project file relations.qgs. You can see the content of the project (see figure_embed_dialog).
3. Press Ctrl and click on the layers airports and regions. Press [OK]. The selected layers are em-
bedded in the map legend and the map view now.
Figure 8.11: Select layers and groups to embed
Si bien las capas incrustadas son editables, no se pueden cambiar sus propiedades como estilo y etiquetado.
8.13.2 Eliminar capas incrustadas
Remove
Right-click on the embedded layer and choose .
8.14 Elementos decorativos
The Decorations of QGIS include the Grid, the Copyright Label, the North Arrow and the Scale Bar. They are
used to decorate the map by adding cartographic elements.
8.14.1 Cuadrcula
Cuadrcula
permite agregar una rejilla de coordenadas y anotaciones a la vista del mapa.
Figure 8.12: El Dilogo Cuadrcula
1. Seleccione en el men Ver Ilustraciones Cuadrcula. Aparece el dlogo (ver figure_decorations_1).
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2. Activar la casilla Activar cuadrcula y establecer la definicin de la cuadrcula de acuerdo con las capas
cargadas en la vista del mapa.
3. Activar la casilla Dibujar anotaciones y establecer la definicin de las anotaciones de acuerdo con las
capas cargadas en la vista del mapa.
4. Click [Apply] to verify that it looks as expected or [OK] if youre satisfied.
8.14.2 Etiqueta de derechos de autor
Copyright label
adds a copyright label using the text you prefer to the map.
Figure 8.13: El Dilogo de Derechos de Autor
1. Seleccione en el men Ver Ilustraciones Etiqueta de Copyright. Aparece el dlogo (ver fig-
ure_decorations_2).
2. Comprobar que la casilla de verificacin Activar etiqueta de copyright este marcada.

3. Escribir el texto que se quiera colocar en el mapa. Se puede usar HTML como se muestra en el ejemplo.
4. Choose the placement of the label from the Placement combo box.
5. You can refine the placement of the item by setting a Horizontal and/or Vertical Marging from (Canvas)
Edge. These values can be a distance in Millimeter or Pixels or set as Percentage of the width or height of
the map canvas.
6. You can change the color to apply.
In the example above, which is the default, QGIS places a copyright symbol followed by the date in the lower
right-hand corner of the map canvas.
8.14.3 Flecha del Norte
North Arrow
places a simple north arrow on the map canvas. Currently, there is only one style available. You can
adjust the angle of the arrow or let QGIS set the direction automatically. If you choose to let QGIS determine the
direction, it makes its best guess as to how the arrow should be oriented. For placement of the arrow, you have
four options, corresponding to the four corners of the map canvas. You can refine the placement of the arrow by
setting a Horizontal and/or Vertical Marging from (Canvas) Edge. These values can be a distance in Millimeter
or Pixels or set as Percentage of the width or height of the map canvas.

Figure 8.14: El Dilogo Flecha Norte
8.14.4 Barra de escala
Scale Bar
adds a simple scale bar to the map canvas. You can control the style and placement, as well as the
labelling of the bar.
Figure 8.15: El Dilogo Barra de Escala
QGIS only supports displaying the scale in the same units as your map frame. So if the units of your layers are in
meters, you cant create a scale bar in feet. Likewise, if you are using decimal degrees, you cant create a scale
bar to display distance in meters.
Para aadir una barra de escala:
1. Seleccionar del men Ver Ilustraciones Barra de escala. Se iniciar el dilogo (ver fig-
ure_decorations_4).
2. Comprobar que la casilla de verificacin Habilitar barra de escala est marcada.
3. Choose the style from the Scale bar style combo box.
4. Select the color for the bar Color of bar or use the default black color.
5. Set the Size of bar .
6. Optionally, check Automatically snap to round number on resize to display values easy-to-read.
7. Choose the placement from the Placement combo box.

8. You can refine the placement of the item by setting a Horizontal and/or Vertical Marging from (Canvas)
Edge. These values can be a distance in Millimeter or Pixels or set as Percentage of the width or height of
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the map canvas.

Truco: Configuracin de elementos decorativos

Al guardar un proyecto .qgs, cualquiera de los cambios que se hayan hecho a la cuadrcula, flecha de norte, barra
de escala y copyright se guardarn en el proyecto y se restaurn la prxima vez que cargue el proyecto.
8.15 Autenticacin
QGIS has facility to store/retrieve authentication credentials in a secure manner. Users can securely save cre-
dentials into authentication configurations, which are stored in a portable database, can be applied to server or
database connections, and safely referenced by their ID tokens in project or settings files. For more information
see Sistema de autenticacin.
A master password needs to be set up when initializing the authentication system and its portable database.
8.16 Guardar capa en archivo
Layers (raster or vector) can be saved in another format with the Save As... feature in the layer contextual menu
(by right-clicking in the layer in the layer tree) or in the Layer Save As... menu.
The Save As dialog shows several parameters to change the behaviour when saving the layer. Common parameters
(raster and vector) are:
Formato
Nombre de archivo
SRC
Add save file to map to add the new layer to the canvas
Extent (possible values are layer, Map view or custom extent)
Create (for raster), Layer or Custom (for vector) Options which allow you to change some advanced options.
Advanced user can see the driver documentation in gdal-ogr documentation.
However, some parameters are specific to raster and vector formats:
Raster specific parameters:
Resolution (horizontal and vertical)
Creacin de pirmide
Output mode (raw data or rendered image)
Vector specific parameters:
Codificacin
Save only selected features
Skip attribute creation
Symbology export: can be used mainly for DXF export and for all file formats who manage OGR
feature styles (see note below) as DXF, KML, tab file formats:
* No symbology: default style of the application that reads the data

* Feature symbology: save style with OGR Feature Styles (see note below)
* Symbol Layer symbology: save with OGR Feature Styles (see note below) but export the same
geometry multiple times if there are multiple symbology symbol layers used

Geometry:
* force to multi-geometry,
* add z-dimension,
* add or remove a geometry column with the drop-down list. This is not linked with the current
geometry type of the layer. You can add an empty geometry column to an attribute table, remove
the geometry column of a spatial layer.
Nota: OGR Feature Styles are a way to store style directly in the data as a hidden attribute. Only some format
can handle this kind of information. KML, DXF and TAB files format are such format. For advanced user, you
can read the OGR Feature Styles specification document.
Nota: About DXF files

Vector layers can be exported to DXF files using another tool, the DXF Export ... in Project. The windows allow
the user to choose the layer file, the symbology mode (see the note above), the symbology scale, the encoding, the
visibility preset and the layers to include in the DXF file.
As an option, you can Use the layer title as name if set or Export features intersecting the current map extent.
8.17 Use of variables for dynamic content
You can define custom variables for use in expressions. Variables can be defined at the application global level,
project level, layer level and composition level. Just like CSS cascading rules, variables can be overwritten - eg,
a project level variable will overwrite any application level variables set. You can use these variables to build
text strings or other custom expressions using @ character before the variable name. For example in composer
creating a label with this content:
This map was made using QGIS [% @qgis_version %]. The project file for this
map is: [% @project_path %]
Will render the label like this:

This map was made using QGIS 2.14. The project file for this map is:
/gis/qgis-user-conference-2015.qgs
You can manage global variables from the Settings Options menu, and project level variables from Project
properties (including adding your own custom variables).
Nota: you can read more information and find examples here Exploring variables in QGIS 2.12, part 1, part 2
and part 3.
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Figure 8.16: Edit variable at the project level

CHAPTER 9
Configuracin QGIS
QGIS is highly configurable through the Settings menu. Choose between Project Properties, Options and Cus-
tomization.
Nota: QGIS follows desktop guidelines for the location of options and project properties item. Consequently
related to the OS you are using, location of some of items described below could be in the Project or the Settings
menu.
9.1 Propiedades del proyecto
In the properties window for the project under Settings Project Properties (kde) or Project
Project Properties (Gnome, OS X or Windows), you can set project-specific options.
In the General menu, the general settings let you:
d un texto al ttulo del proyecto aparte de la ruta del archivo del proyecto
escoge el color a usar para objetos espaciales cuando son seleccionados
escoger el color de fondo: el color a usar para la tela de fondo del mapa
set whether the path to layers in the project should be saved as absolute (full) or as relative to the
project file location. You may prefer relative path when both layers and project files can be moved or
shared or if the project is accessed from computers on different platforms.
choose to avoid artifacts when project is rendered as map tiles. Note that checking this option can lead
to performance degradation.
Calculating areas and distances is a common need in GIS. However, these values are really tied to the
underlying projection settings. The Measurements frame lets you control these parameters. You can indeed
choose:
the ellipsoid to use: it can be an existing one, a custom one (youll need to set values of the semi-major
and semi-minor axis) or None/Planimetric.
the units for distance measurements for length and perimeter and the units for area measurements.
These settings, which default to the units set in QGIS options but then overrides it for the current
project, are used in:
* Attribute table field update bar

* Clculos de calculadora de campo
* Identify tool derived length, perimeter and area values
* Default unit shown in measure dialog
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The Coordinate display allows you to choose and customize the format of units to use to display the mouse
coordinate in the status bar and the derived coordinates shown via the identify tool.
Finally, you can define a project scale list, which overrides the global predefined scales.
Figure 9.1: General tab of Project Properties dialog
El men SRC habilitado para elegir el Sistema de Referencia de Coordenadas para este proyecto, y para
habilitar la reproyeccin al vuelo de capas rster y vector cuando se muestran capas de un diferente SRC.
With the Identify layers menu, you set (or disable) which layers will respond to the identify tool. By default,
layers are set queryable.
The Default Styles menu lets you control how new layers will be drawn when they do not have an existing
.qml style defined. You can also set the default transparency level for new layers and whether symbols
should have random colors assigned to them. There is also an additional section where you can define
specific colors for the running project. You can find the added colors in the drop down menu of the color
dialog window present in each renderer.
The tab OWS Server allows you to define information about the QGIS Server WMS and WFS capabilities,
extent and CRS restrictions.
El men Macros es utilizado para editar macros de Python para proyectos. Actualmente, solo tres macros
estn disponibles: openProject(), saveProject() and closeProject().
El men Relaciones es utilizado para definir relaciones 1:n. Las relaciones estn definidas en el dilogo de
propiedades del proyecto. Una vez que existen las relaciones de una capa, un nuevo elemento de la interfaz
de usuario en la vista del formulario (por ejemplo al identificar un elemento espacial y abrir el formulario)
mostrar una lista de las entidades relacionadas. Este proporciona un poderosa forma para expresar, por
ejemplo la inspeccin de la longitud de una tubera o el segmento de carretera. Se puede encontrar ms
informacin acerca de relaciones 1:n y soporte en la seccin Creando relaciones uno a muchos.
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Figure 9.2: Definicin macro en QGIS
9.2 Opciones
Some basic options for QGIS can be selected using the Options dialog. Select the menu option Settings
Options. The tabs where you can customize your options are described below.
9.2.1 Men General
Aplicacin
Select the Style (QGIS restart required) and choose between Oxygen,Windows,Motif,CDE,
Plastique and Cleanlooks ( ).
Define the Icon theme . Currently only default is possible.
Define the Icon size .

Define the Font. Choose between Qt default and a user-defined font.
Change the Timeout for timed messages or dialogs .
Ocultar la pantalla de bienvenida al iniciar la aplicacin
Mostrar consejos al iniciar
Ttulos de cajas de grupos en negrita
Cajas de grupo al estilo QGIS
Utilizar los dilogos de seleccin de colores nativos
Usar dilogos de seleccin de color actualizadas en vivo
Estilo de barra lateral personalizado
Apoyo para rotacin del lienzo experimental (requiere reiniciar)

Los archivos de proyecto
9.2. Opciones 57
Open project on launch (choose between New, Most recent and Specific). When choosing
Specific use the to define a project.
Crear nuevo proyecto desde el proyecto predeterminado. Tiene la posibilidad de presionar Establecer
el actual proyecto como predeterminado o sobre Restablecer el predeterminado. Puede navegar a travs de
sus archivos y definir un directorio donde se encuentra las plantillas definidas por el usuario. Esto se aadir
a Proyecto Nueva plantilla de formulario. Si activa primero Crear nuevo proyecto desde proyecto
predeterminado y entonces guarde un proyecto en l la carpeta de las plantillas de proyecto.
Solicitar guardar proyectos y fuentes de datos modificadas cuando sea necesario
Pedir confirmacin cuando se va a eliminar una capa
Avisar cuando se abra un proyecto guardado con una versin anterior de QGIS
Enable macros . This option was created to handle macros that are written to perform an action on
project events. You can choose between Never, Ask, For this session only and Always (not recom-
mended).
9.2.2 Men Sistema
Entorno
Variables de entorno del sistema ahora se puede ver, y muchos lo configuran en el grupo Entorno (ver fig-
ure_environment_variables). Esto es til para las plataformas, como Mac, donde una aplicacin GUI no heredan
necesariamente entorno del casco del usuario. Tambin es til para configurar y visualizar las variables de en-
torno para los conjuntos de herramientas externas controladas por la caja de herramientas de procesamiento (por
ejemplo, SAGA, GRASS), y para activar la salida de depuracin para secciones especficas del cdigo fuente.
Utilizar variables personalizadas (requiere reiniciar - incluir separadores). Puede [Aadir] y [Borrar]
variables. Las variables de entorno ya definidas se muestran en Variables de entorno actuales, y es posible
filtrarlos activando Mostrar slo variables de QGIS especficas.
Rutas de complemento
[Aadir] o [Borrar] Ruta(s) para buscar libreras de componentes en C++ adicionales
9.2.3 Men Fuente de datos
Atributos de entidades espaciales y tabla
Abrir tabla de atributos en la ventana adosada (requiere reiniciar QGIS)
Copy selected rows to clipboard

Copy geometry in WKT representation from attribute table. When using
from the Attribute table dialog, this has the result that the coordinates of points or vertices are also copied
to the clipboard.
Attribute table behavior . There are three possibilities: Show all features, Show selected features
and Show features visible on map.
Attribute table row cache . This row cache makes it possible to save the last loaded N attribute rows
so that working with the attribute table will be quicker. The cache will be deleted when closing the attribute
table.
Representacin de valores NULOS. Aqu, puede definir un valor para los datos de campos que tienen un
valor NULO.
Manejo de fuente de datos

Figure 9.3: Variables del ambiente del sistema en QGIS
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Scan for valid items in the browser dock . You can choose between Check extension and Check file
contents.
Scan for contents of compressed files (.zip) in browser dock . No, Basic scan and Full scan are
possible.
Solicitar subcapas raster al abrir. Algunas subcapas raster soportadas se les llama subdataset en GDAL.
Un ejemplo son los archivos netCDF si hay muchos variables netCDF, GDAL ve cada variable como un
subconjunto de datos. La opcin le permite controlar cmo lidiar con subcapas cuando se abre un archivo
con subcapas. Dispone de las siguientes opciones:
Siempre: Siempre preguntar (Si hay subcapas existentes)
Si es necesario: Preguntar si la capa no tiene bandas, pero tiene subcapas
Nunca: Nunca preguntar, no se cargar nada
Cargar todo: Nunca preguntar, pero cargar todas las subcapas
Ignore shapefile encoding declaration. If a shapefile has encoding information, this will be ignored by
QGIS.
Aadir capas PostGIS con doble clic y seleccionar en modo extendido
Aadir capas de Oracle con doble clic y seleccionar en modo extendido
Execute expressions on server-side if possible
create transaction groups automatically whenever possible (Experimental). When this mode is turned
on, all (postgres) layers from the same database are synchronised in their edit state, i.e. when one layer is
put into edit state, all are, when one layer is committed or one layer is rolled back, so are the others. Also,
instead of buffering edit changes locally, they are directly sent to a transaction in the database which gets
committed when the user clicks save layer.
Hidden Browser Path
This widget lists all the folder you chose to hide from the Browser panel. Removing a folder from the list will
make it available in the Browser panel.
9.2.4 Men representacin
Rendering behavior
Por defecto las nuevas capas aadidas al mapa se deben mostrar
Utilizar el cacheo de presentacin en lo posible a la velocidad de regeneracin
Representacin de capas en paralelo utilizando muchos ncleos CPU
Mximo de ncleos a utilizar

Intervalo de actualizacin del mapa (por defecto 250 ms)
Enable feature simplification by default for newly added layers

Simplificacin del umbral
Simplifique el lado del proveedor si es posible

Escala mxima a la que la capa se debe simplificar
Calidad de representacin
Hacer que las lneas se muestren menos quebradas a expensas del rendimiento de la representacin

Rsters
Con Seleccin de la banda RGB, puede definir el numero para la banda Roja, Verde y Azul.
Mejora de contraste
Single band gray . A single band gray can have No stretch, Stretch to MinMax, Stretch and Clip
to MinMax and also Clip to MinMax.
Multi band color (byte/band) . Options are No stretch, Stretch to MinMax, Stretch and Clip to
MinMax and Clip to MinMax.
Multi band color (>byte/band) . Options are No stretch, Stretch to MinMax, Stretch and Clip to
MinMax and Clip to MinMax.
Limits (minimum/maximum) . Options are Cumulative pixel count cut, Minimum/Maximum,

Mean +/- standard deviation.
Lmite para corte del conteo acumulativo de pxeles
Multiplicador de la desviacin estndar
Depuracin
Refrescar lienzo de mapa
9.2.5 Men de Colores
Este men le permite aadir algunos colores personalizados que puede encontrar en cada ventana de dilogo de
color de la representacin. Ver un conjunto de colores predefinidos en la pestaa: se puede eliminar o editar
todos ellos. Por otra parte se puede aadir el color que se desea y realizar algunas operaciones de copiar y pegar.
Finalmente se puede exportar el conjunto de colores como un archivo gpl o importarlos.
9.2.6 Men Vista del mapa y leyenda
Apariencia del mapa predeterminado (anulado por las propiedades del proyecto)
Definir un Color de seleccin y un Color de fondo.
Leyenda de capa
Double click action in legend . You can either Open layer properties or Open attribute table with
the double click.
Lo siguiente es posible Estilos de elementos de la leyenda:
Comenzar el nombre de las capas con maysculas
Poner en negrita los nombres de la capa
Poner en negrita los nombres de grupo
Mostrar nombres de atributos de clasificacin
Crear iconos de rster (puede ser lento)
9.2.7 Men Herramientas de mapa
This menu offers some options regarding the behavior of the Identify tool.
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Radio de bsqueda para identificar y visualizar avisos en el mapa es un factor de tolerancia expresada
como un porcentaje del ancho de mapa. Esto significa que la herramienta de identificacin representara los
resultados siempre y cuando haga clic dentro de esta tolerancia.
Color de realce le permite elegir con que color deben ser identificados los objetos espaciales que estn
resaltados.
Buffer determines a buffer distance to be rendered from the outline of the identify highlight.
Minimum width determines how thick should the outline of a highlighted object be.
Herramienta de medicin
Definir Color de la banda de medida para herramienta de medida
Definir Lugares decimales
Keep base unit to not automatically convert large numbers (e.g., meters to kilometers)
Preferred distance units (Meters, Feet, Nautical Miles, Degrees or Map Units )
Preferred area units (Square meters, Square feet, Square yards, Hectares, Map Units ...)
Preferred angle units (Degrees, Radians, Gon/gradians, Minutes of arc ...)

Mover y zum
Define Mouse wheel action (Zoom, Zoom and recenter, Zoom to mouse cursor, Nothing)
Definir Factor de zum para la rueda del ratn
Escalas predefinidas
Here, you find a list of predefined scales. With the and buttons you can add or remove your personal
scales. You can also import or export scales from/to a .XML file. Note that you still have the possibility to remove
your changes and reset to the predefined list.
9.2.8 Men Diseador
Predeterminados de la composicin
Se puede definir el Tipo de letra predeterminado aqu.
Apariencia de la cuadrcula
Define the Grid style (Solid, Dots, Crosses)

Definir el Color de la cuadrcula
Valores predeterminados de la cuadrcula y gua
Define the Grid spacing
Define the Grid offset for x and y
Define the Snap tolerance
9.2.9 Men Digitalizacin
Creacin de entidades espaciales
Suprimir formulario emergente de atributos despus de crear objetos espaciales
Reutilizar ltimos valores de atributos introducidos

Validate geometries. Editing complex lines and polygons with many nodes can result in very slow rendering.
This is because the default validation procedures in QGIS can take a lot of time. To speed up rendering, it is
possible to select GEOS geometry validation (starting from GEOS 3.3) or to switch it off. GEOS geometry
validation is much faster, but the disadvantage is that only the first geometry problem will be reported.
Banda de medicin
Definir banda elstica Ancho de lnea y Color de lnea
Autoensamblado
Abrir opciones de autoensamblado en una ventana adosada(requiere reiniciar QGIS)
Define Default snap mode (To vertex, To segment, To vertex and segment, Off)
Definir Tolerancia de autoensamblado predeterminado en unidades de mapa o pxeles
Definir el Radio de bsqueda para edicin de vrtices en unidades de mapa o pxeles
Marcar vrtices
Mostrar marcadores slo para los objetos espaciales seleccionados
Define vertex Marker style (Cross (default), Semi transparent circle or None)
Definir vrtice Tamao de marcador
Herramienta de desplazamiento de curva
Offset Curve
The next 3 options refer to the tool in Digitalizacin avanzada. Through the various settings, it is
possible to influence the shape of the line offset. These options are possible starting from GEOS 3.3.
Estilo de la unin
Segmentos del cuadrante
Lmite Miter
9.2.10 Men GDAL
GDAL es una biblioteca de intercambio de datos para archivos rster. Es esta pestaa, puede Editar opciones de
creacin y Editar opciones de pirmides de los formatos rster. Definir que controlador GDAL se va a utilizar
para un formato rster, como en algunos casos ms de un controlador est disponible.
9.2.11 Men SRC
SRC predeterminado para nuevos proyectos

Dont enable on the fly reprojection
Automatically enable on the fly reprojection if layers have different CRS
Enable on the fly reprojection by default
Seleccionar un SRC y Empezar siempre nuevos proyectos con este SRC
SRC para nuevas capas
Esta rea permite definir la accin a realizar cuando una nueva capa es creada, o cuando una capa sin SRC es
cargada.
Prompt for CRS

Use project CRS
Use default CRS
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Por defecto transformacin de datum
Preguntar por la trasformacin del datum cuando el predeterminado no este definido

Si ha trabajado con la trasformacin de SRC al vuelo puede ver el resultado de la transformacin en la
ventana de abajo. Puede encontrar informacin acerca de Origen SRC y Destino SRC as como tambin
Transformacin de datum de origen y Trasformacin de datum destino.
9.2.12 Men Idioma
Ignorar el idioma del sistema y Idioma a usar en su lugar

Informacin acerca del idioma del sistema
9.2.13 Autenticacin
In the Authentication tab you can set authentication configurations and manage PKI certificates. See Sistema de
autenticacin for more details.
9.2.14 Men Red
General
Definir Direccin de bsqueda de WMS, por omisin es http://geopole.org/wms/search?search=\%1\&type=
Definir Expir el tiempo para solicitudes de red - por omisin 60000
Definir Periodo de expiracin predeterminada para teselas WMS-C/WMTS (en horas) - por omisin 24
Definir Reintentar al mximo en caso de errores en la solicitud de tile
Definir Agente- Usuario
Configuracin de cach
Definir la configuracin del cach Directorio y un Tamao.
Usar proxy para acceso web y definir Servidor, Puerto, Usuario, y Contrasea.
Set the Proxy type according to your needs.

Default Proxy: Proxy se determina con base en el proxy de aplicacin que establece el uso
Socks5Proxy: Proxy genrico para cualquier tipo de conexin. Soporta TCP, UDP, unin a un puerto
(conexiones entrantes) y autenticacin.
HttpProxy: Implementado con el comando CONNECT, slo admite conexiones TCP salientes; ad-
mite la autenticacin.
HttpCachingProxy: Implementando el uso de comandos HTTP normales, es til slo en el contexto
de peticiones HTTP.
FtpCachingProxy: Implementar el uso de un proxy FTP, es til slo en el contexto de las peticiones
FTP.
Excluir algunas URLs se puede agregar a la caja de texto debajo los valores del proxy (ver Figure_Network_Tab).
Si necesita ms informacin detallada acerca de las diferentes configuraciones de proxy, consulte el manual de
documentacin de la biblioteca QT en http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qnetworkproxy.html#ProxyType-enum.
Truco: Utilizar proxies

El uso de proxies a veces puede ser complicado. Es til para proceder por prueba y error con los tipos de proxies
anteriores, comprobar para ver si en su caso tiene xito.

Figure 9.4: Configurar proxy en QGIS
9.2. Opciones 65
You can modify the options according to your needs. Some of the changes may require a restart of QGIS before
they will be effective.
La configuracin se guarda en un archivo de texto: $HOME/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf
Puede encontrar sus ajustes en: $HOME/Library/Preferences/org.qgis.qgis.plist

Los ajustes se almacenan bajo el registro: HKEY\CURRENT_USER\Software\QGIS\qgis
9.3 Personalizacin
The customization dialog lets you (de)activate almost every element in the QGIS user interface. This can be very
useful if you want to provide your end-users with a light version of QGIS, containing only the icons, menus or
panels they need.
Nota: Before your changes are applied, you need to restart QGIS.
Figure 9.5: El dilogo de Personalizacin
Ticking the Enable customization checkbox is the first step on the way to QGIS customization. This enables
the toolbar and the widget panel from which you can uncheck and thus disable some GUI items.
The configurable item can be:
a Menu or some of its sub-menus from the Barra de Men
a whole Panel (see Panels and Toolbars)
the Status bar described in Barra de Estado or some of its items
a Toolbar: the whole bar or some of its icons
or any widget from any dialog in QGIS: label, button, combobox...
Switch to catching widgets in main application

With , you can click on an item in QGIS interface that you want to be hidden
and QGIS automatically unchecks the corresponding entry in the Customization dialog.
Once you setup your configuration, click [Apply] or [Ok] to validate your changes. This configuration becomes
the one used by default by QGIS at the next startup.
Save To File
The modifications can also be saved in a .ini file using button. This is a handy way to share a
Load from File
common QGIS interface among multiple users. Just click on from the destination computer in
order to import the .ini file. You can also run command line tools and save various setups for different use cases
as well.

Truco: Easily restore predefined QGIS

The initial QGIS GUI configuration can be restored by one of the methods below:
Check All
unchecking Enable customization option in the Customization dialog or click the button
pressing the [Reset] button in the QSettings frame under Settings Options menu, System tab
launching QGIS at a command prompt with the following command line qgis --nocustomization
setting to false the value of UI Customization Enabled variable under Settings Options menu,
Advanced tab.
In most cases, you need to restart QGIS in order to have the change applied.
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CHAPTER 10
Trabajar con Proyecciones
QGIS allows users to define a global and project-wide CRS (coordinate reference system) for layers without a
pre-defined CRS. It also allows the user to define custom coordinate reference systems and supports on-the-fly
(OTF) projection of vector and raster layers. All of these features allow the user to display layers with different
CRSs and have them overlay properly.
10.1 Vista general de la ayuda de proyeccin
QGIS has support for approximately 2,700 known CRSs. Definitions for each CRS are stored in a SQLite database
that is installed with QGIS. Normally, you do not need to manipulate the database directly. In fact, doing so may
cause projection support to fail. Custom CRSs are stored in a user database. See section Sistema de referencia de
coordenadas personalizada for information on managing your custom coordinate reference systems.
The CRSs available in QGIS are based on those defined by the European Petroleum Search Group (EPSG) and
the Institut Geographique National de France (IGNF) and are largely abstracted from the spatial reference tables
used in GDAL. EPSG identifiers are present in the database and can be used to specify a CRS in QGIS.
In order to use OTF projection, either your data must contain information about its coordinate reference system or
you will need to define a global, layer or project-wide CRS. For PostGIS layers, QGIS uses the spatial reference
identifier that was specified when the layer was created. For data supported by OGR, QGIS relies on the presence
of a recognized means of specifying the CRS. In the case of shapefiles, this means a file containing the well-known
text (WKT) specification of the CRS. This projection file has the same base name as the shapefile and a .prj
extension. For example, a shapefile named alaska.shp would have a corresponding projection file named
alaska.prj.
Whenever you select a new CRS, the layer units will automatically be changed in the General tab of the Project
Properties dialog under the Project (Gnome, OS X) or Settings (KDE, Windows) menu.
10.2 Especificar proyeccin global
QGIS starts each new project using the global default projection. The global default CRS is EPSG:4326 - WGS 84
(proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs), and it comes predefined in QGIS. This
default can be changed via the [Select...] button in the first section, which is used to define the default coordinate
reference system for new projects, as shown in figure_projection_1. This choice will be saved for use in subsequent
QGIS sessions.
When you use layers that do not have a CRS, you need to define how QGIS responds to these layers. This can be
done globally or project-wide in the CRS tab under Settings Options.
Las opciones mostradas en figure_projection_1 son:
Prompt for CRS

Use project CRS
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Figure 10.1: CRS tab in the QGIS Options Dialog
Use default CRS displayed below

If you want to define the coordinate reference system for a certain layer without CRS information, you can also do
that in the General tab of the raster and vector properties dialog (see Men General for rasters and General Menu
for vectors). If your layer already has a CRS defined, it will be displayed as shown in Men general en dilogo de
propiedades de capas vector.
Truco: SRC en la leyenda de mapa

Haga clic derecho sobre una capa en la leyenda del mapa (seccin Panel de Capas) proporciona dos atajos.
Establecer SRC de la capa te lleva directamente al dilogo del seleccin de Sistema de Referencia de Coordenadas
(vea figure_projection_2). Establecer SRC del proyecto a partir de la capa redefine el SRC del proyecto mediante
el SRC de la capa.
10.3 Definir reproyeccin al vuelo (OTF)
QGIS supports OTF reprojection for both raster and vector data. However, OTF is not activated by default. To use
OTF projection, you must activate the Enable on the fly CRS transformation checkbox in the CRS tab of the
Project Properties dialog.
Hay tres maneras de hacer esto:
1. Select Project Properties from the Project (Gnome, OSX) or Settings (KDE, Windows) menu.
SRC actual
2. Hacer clic en el icono en la esquina inferior-derecha de la barra de estado.
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3. Encender OTF por omisin en la pestaa :guilabel:CRS del dilogo :guilabel:Options seleccionando
Permitir la reproyeccin on the fly por omisin o Permitir automticamente on the fly si las capas tienen
diferente CRS.
Si ya se ha cargado una capa y desea habilitar la proyeccin OTF, lo mejor es abrir la pestaa CRS del dilogo
Propiedades del Proyecto, elegir un CRS, y activar el casillero Permitir la transformacin on the fly CRS.
El cono |geogrfico| estado CRS no debe ser puesto en gris, y todas las capas sern proyectadas en OTF al CRS
exhibido cerca del cono.
Figure 10.2: Project Properties Dialog
La pestaa CRS en el dilogo Propiedades del Proyecto contiene cinco componentes importantes, como se muestra
en Figura_proyeccin_2_y descrita abajo:
1. Habilitar la transformacin on the fly CRS Este casillero se usa para habilitar o deshabilitar la
proyeccin OTF. Al estar apagado, cada capa es dibujada usando las coordenadas como se leen de la fuente
de datos, y los componentes descritos abajo estn inactivos. Al encender, las coordenadas en cada capa se
proyectan al sistema de referencia de coordenadas definido por el mapa.
2. Filtro Si conoce el cdigo EPSG, el identificador, del nombre para un sistema de referencia por coorde-
nadas, puede usar la faccin de bsqueda para encontrarlo. Ingresar el cdigo EPSG, el identificador o el
nombre.
3. Sistemas de referencia por coordenadas usadas recientemente Si tiene ciertos CRSs que ha usado
frecuentemente en su trabajo GIS diario, estos se desplegarn en esta lista. Clic en una de estas opciones
para seleccionar el CRS asociado.
4. Coordinate reference systems of the world This is a list of all CRSs supported by QGIS, including
Geographic, Projected and Custom coordinate reference systems. To define a CRS, select it from the list by
expanding the appropriate node and selecting the CRS. The active CRS is preselected.
5. ** Texto PROJ.4** Esta es la cadena CRS usada por la mquina de proyeccin PROJ.4. Este texto es
solo de lectura y provisto para propsitos de informacin.
Truco: Dilogo de Propiedades del proyecto

Si se abre el dilogo propiedades del Proyecto del men Proyecto, debe dar clic en la pestaa CRS para ver los
ajustes CRS.
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Abriendo el dilogo del cono |geogrfico| estado CRS traer automticamente al frente la pestaa CRS.
10.4 Sistema de referencia de coordenadas personalizada
Si QGIS no provee el sistema de referencia por coordenadas que necesita, puede definir un CRS predeterminado.
Para definir un CRS, elegir Custom CRS... del men Ajustes. CRSs personalizados se almacenan en su base
de datos de usuario lqgl. A ms del CRS personalizado, esta base de datos tambin contiene sus separadores
espaciales y otros datos personalizados.
Figure 10.3: Dilogo SRC Personalizado
Defining a custom CRS in QGIS requires a good understanding of the PROJ.4 projection library. To begin, refer to
Cartographic Projection Procedures for the UNIX Environment - A Users Manual by Gerald I. Evenden, U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-284, 1990 (available at ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/OF90-284.pdf).
This manual describes the use of the proj.4 and related command line utilities. The cartographic parameters
used with proj.4 are described in the user manual and are the same as those used by QGIS.
El dilogo Definicin del Sistema de Referencia de Coordenadas personalizada slo necesita dos parmetros para
definir un usuario de SRC:
1. Un nombre descriptivo
2. Los parmetros cartogrficos en el formato PROJ.4

Add new CRS

To create a new CRS, click the button and enter a descriptive name and the CRS parameters.
Note que :guilaber:Parmetros debe empezar con un bloque +proj=, para repersentar el nuevo sistema de
referencia por coordenadas.
Usted puede evaluar sus parmetros CRS para ver si dan resultados sensatos. Para hacer esto, ingresar valores de
longitud y latitud conocidos WGS 84 en campos Norte :guilable:Este, respectivamente. Clic en [Calcular], y
comparar los resultados con valores conocidos en su sistema de referencia por coordenadas.
10.5 Transformaciones de datos perdeterminadas
OTF depends on being able to transform data into a default CRS, and QGIS uses WGS84. For some CRS there
are a number of transforms available. QGIS allows you to define the transformation used otherwise QGIS uses a
default transformation.
In the CRS tab under Settings Options you can:
set QGIS to ask you when it needs define a transformation using Ask for datum transformation when no
default is defined
editar una lista de predeterminaciones de usuarios para transformaciones.
QGIS asks which transformation to use by opening a dialogue box displaying PROJ.4 text describing the source
and destination transforms. Further information may be found by hovering over a transform. User defaults can be
saved by selecting Remember selection.
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CHAPTER 11
Navegador QGIS
QGIS Browser widget

QGIS Browser as a standalone application
QGIS Browser is available as a standalone application and as a panel in QGIS Desktop. It lets you easily navigate
in your filesystem and manage geodata. You can have access to common vector files (e.g., ESRI shapefiles
or MapInfo files), databases (e.g., PostGIS, Oracle, SpatiaLite or MS SQL Spatial) and OWS/WCS|WMS|WFS
connections. You can also view your GRASS data (to get the data into QGIS, see Integracion GRASS SIG).
11.1 QGIS Browser widget
To activate QGIS Browser, right-click on QGIS toolbar and check Browser Panel or select it from View
Panels or Settings Panels (kde). In the Browser panel, you can now browse in your filesystem, databases and
web services and get your data into the map view with a simple drag-and-drop or double-click.
You can also open a QGIS project directly from the Browser panel by double-clicking its name or by drag-and-
drop into the map view.
At the top of the panel, you find some icons that help you to:
Add Selected Layers. You can also add data into the map view by selecting Add Layer or Add selected
layers in the context menu.
Refresh the browser tree
search for specific data. Enter a search word or wildcard and the browser will filter the tree to only
show paths to matching DB tables, filenames or folders other data or folders wont be displayed. See the
Browser Panel(2) example on the figure_browser_panels. The comparison can be case-sensitive or not. It
can also be set to:
normal: return any item containing the search text
using wildcard(s): fine tune the search using ? and/or * characters to specify the position of the search
text
using a regular expression
Collapse the whole tree
Enable and disable properties widget. When toggled on, a new widget is added at the bottom of the
panel showing, if applicable, metadatas of the selected item
Right-click an item in the browser tree helps you to:
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in case of file or table, display its metadata or open it in your project. Tables can even be renamed, deleted
or truncated
in case of folder, bookmark it into your favourites, hide it from the browser tree. Hidden folders can be
managed from the Settings Options Data Sources tab
refresh, rename or delete schema.
You can also import files into databases or copy tables from one schema/database to another one with a simple
drag-and-drop. There is a second browser panel available to avoid long scrolling while dragging. Just select the
file and drag-and-drop from one panel to the other.
Figure 11.1: QGIS Browser panels side-by-side
11.2 QGIS Browser as a standalone application
Its also possible to run the QGIS Browser as a standalone application. Like the Browser panel, the standalone
Browser helps you navigate through your filesystem and manage your geodata. It also helps you preview or create
them and open them in a QGIS project by drag-and-drop.
Start the QGIS browser
Type in qbrowser at a command prompt.

Start the QGIS Browser using the Start menu or desktop shortcut.
The QGIS Browser is available from your Applications folder.

In figure_browser_standalone_metadata, you can see the enhanced functionality of the standalone QGIS Browser.
The Param tab provides the details of your connection-based datasets, like PostGIS or MSSQL Spatial. The
Metadata tab contains general information about the file (see Metadata Menu). With the Preview tab, you can
have a look at your files without importing them into your QGIS project. Its also possible to preview the attributes
of your files in the Attributes tab.
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Figure 11.2: QGIS Browser as a standalone application
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CHAPTER 12
Trabajar con catos vectoriales
12.1 Formatos de datos compatibles
QGIS utiliza la librera OGR para leer y escribir formatos de datos vectoriales, incluyendo formatos de archivos
shape de ESRI, MapInfo y MicroStation, base de datos AutoCAD DXF, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, Oracle Spatial y
MSSQL Spatial, y muchos ms. La implementacin de vector de GRASS y PostgreSQL es suministrado por
complementos de proveedor de datos nativo de QGIS. Los datos vectoriales tambin se pueden cargar en modo
lectura de archivos zip y gzip en QGIS. A la fecha de este documento, 69 formatos vectoriales son reconocidos
por la librera OGR (vea OGR-SOFTWARE-SUITE in Referencias bibliogrficas y web). La lista completa esta
disponible en http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html.
Nota: Not all of the listed formats may work in QGIS for various reasons. For example, some require external
commercial libraries, or the GDAL/OGR installation of your OS may not have been built to support the format
you want to use. Only those formats that have been well tested will appear in the list of file types when loading a
vector into QGIS. Other untested formats can be loaded by selecting *.*.
Trabajar con datos vectoriales GRASS se describe en la seccin Integracion GRASS SIG.
This section describes how to work with several common formats: ESRI shapefiles, PostGIS layers, SpatiaLite
layers, OpenStreetMap vectors, and Comma Separated data (CSV). Many of the features available in QGIS work
the same, regardless of the vector data source. This is by design, and it includes the identify, select, labelling and
attributes functions.
Nota: QGIS supports (multi)point, (multi)line, (multi)polygon, CircularString, CompoundCurve, CurvePolygon,

MultiCurve, MultiSurface feature types, all with Z and/or M values.
You should note also that some driver doesnt support some of these feature types like CircularString, Compound-
Curve, CurvePolygon, MultiCurve, MultiSurface feature type. QGIS will convert them to (multi)polygon feature.
12.1.1 Cargando una capa desde archivo
Add Vector Layer

To load a layer from a file (like a Shapefile, a Mapinfo or a dxf layer), click on the toolbar
button; or type Ctrl+Shift+V. This will bring up a new window (see figure_vector_1).
From the available options check File. Click on [Browse]. That will bring up a standard open file dialog (see
figure_vector_2), which allows you to navigate the file system and load a shapefile or other supported data source.
The selection box Filter allows you to preselect some OGR-supported file formats.
Tambin puede seleccionar la codificacin para el archivo si lo desea.
Selecting a file from the list and clicking [Open] loads it into QGIS. Figure_vector_3 shows QGIS after loading
the alaska.shp file.
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Figure 12.1: Dilogo Adicionar Capa Vectorial
Figure 12.2: Abre un Dilogo de Capa Vectorial Soportada por OGR
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Figure 12.3: QGIS con archivo shape de Alaska cargado
Truco: Capa de colores

Cuando se aade una capa al mapa, se asigna un color al azar. Cuando se aade ms de una capa a la vez, diferentes
colores se asignan a cada capa.
Once a file is loaded, you can zoom around it using the map navigation tools. To change the style of a layer, open
the Layer Properties dialog by double clicking on the layer name or by right-clicking on the name in the legend
and choosing Properties from the context menu. See section Estilo de Menu for more information on setting
symbology of vector layers.
Truco: capa de cargada y se proyecta desde unidades externas montadas en OS X

En sistemas operativos X, unidades porttiles que se montan al lado del disco duro principal no aparecen como
se esperaba en Archivo Abrir Proyecto. Estamos trabajando en una dilogo de abrir/guardar ms nativo al SO
X para solucionar este problema. Como solucin alternativa, puede escribir /Volumes en la caja Nombre del
archivo y presionar Enter. A continuacin, se puede desplazar a unidades externas y los montajes de la red.
Nota: DXF files containing several geometry types (point, line and/or polygon), the name of the layer will be
made from <filename.dxf> entities <geometry type>.
Nota: You can also drag and drop the file(s) into the Layers Panel from either the files browser or the QGIS
Browser panel. If the layer contains several geometry types, a new windows will ask you to select the sublayer.
This often occurs with GPX, Mapinfo or DXF files format.
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Loading specific directory based layer
To load some specific format like ArcInfo Binary Coverage, UK. National Transfer Format, as well as the raw
Add Vector Layer
TIGER format of the US Census Bureau or OpenfileGDB, click on the toolbar button or press
Ctrl+Shift+V to open the Add Vector Layer dialog. Select Directory as Source type. Change the file type
filter Files of type to the format you want to open, for example Arc/Info Binary Coverage. Navigate to the
directory that contains the coverage file or the file, and select it.
Archivos shape de ESRI
The ESRI shapefile is still one of the most used vector file format in QGIS. However, this file format has some
limitation that some other file format have not (like Geopackage, spatialite). Support is provided by the OGR
Simple Feature Library (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/).
Un archivo shape actualmente consiste de varios archivos. Los siguientes tres son necesarios:
1. archivo .shp contiene las geometras de los objetos espaciales
2. archivo .dbf contiene los atributos en formato dBase
3. archivo del ndice .shx
Los archivos shape tambin incluyen un archivo con un sufijo .prj, que contiene la informacin de la proyec-
cin. Si bien es muy til tener un archivo de proyeccin. no es obligatorio. Un conjunto de datos de archivo
shape puede contener archivos adicionales. Para mayor detalle, consulte la especificacin tcnica de ESRI en
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf.
Improving Performance for Shapefiles
To improve the performance of drawing a shapefile, you can create a spatial index. A spatial index will improve
the speed of both zooming and panning. Spatial indexes used by QGIS have a .qix extension.
Utilice estos pasos para crear un ndice:
Add Vector Layer

Load a shapefile by clicking on the toolbar button or pressing Ctrl+Shift+V.
Abrir el dilogo Propiedades de la capa haciendo doble clic sobre el nombre del archivo shape en la leyenda
o haciendo clic derecho y elegir Propiedades del men contextual.
En la pestaa General, hacer clic sobre el botn [Crear ndice Espacial].
Problem loading a shape .prj file
If you load a shapefile with a .prj file and QGIS is not able to read the coordinate reference system from that
file, you will need to define the proper projection manually within the General tab of the Layer Properties dialog
of the layer by clicking the [Specify...] button. This is due to the fact that .prj files often do not provide the
complete projection parameters as used in QGIS and listed in the CRS dialog.
For the same reason, if you create a new shapefile with QGIS, two different projection files are created: a .prj
file with limited projection parameters, compatible with ESRI software, and a .qpj file, providing the complete
parameters of the used CRS. Whenever QGIS finds a .qpj file, it will be used instead of the .prj.
12.1.2 Archivos de Texto delimitado
Los datos tabulares son muy comunes y un formato extensamente utilizado debido a su simplicidad y legibilidad
los datos pueden ser vistos y editados incluso en un editor de texto plano. un archivo de texto delimitado es una
tabla de atributos con cada columna separada por un caracter definido y cada fila separada por un salto de lnea.
La primer fila normalmente contiene los nombres de columnas. Un tipo de campo de archivo de texto delimitado
es un CSV (Valores separados por comas), con cada columna separada por una coma.
Tales archivos de datos tambin pueden contener informacin posicional en dos formas principales:

Como punto de coordenadas en columnas separadas

Como representacin de geometra well-known text (WKT)
QGIS allows you to load a delimited text file as a layer or ordinal table. But first check that the file meets the
following requirements:
1. El archivo debe tener una fila de encabezado delimitado de nombre de campos. Esto debe ser la primer lnea
en el archivo de texto.
2. La fila del encabezado debe contener campo(s) con definicin geometra. Estos campo(s) pueden tener
cualquier nombre.
3. La coordenada X y Y (si la geometra se define por coordenadas) se debe especificarse como nmeros. El
sistema de coordenadas no es importante.
As an example of a valid text file, we import the elevation point data file elevp.csv that comes with the QGIS
sample dataset (see section Datos de ejemplo):
X;Y;ELEV
-300120;7689960;13
-654360;7562040;52
1640;7512840;3
[...]
Algunos elementos a tener en cuenta sobre el archivo de texto:

1. El archivo de texto de ejemplo utiliza ; (punto y coma) como delimitador. Cualquier carcter se puede
utilizar para delimitar los campos.
2. La primer fila es el encabezado. Este contiene los campos X, Y y ELEV.
3. Sin comillas (") se utilizan para delimitar los campos de texto.
4. Las coordenadas X estn contenidas en el campo X.
5. La coordenada Y esta contenida en el campo Y.
Others valuable informations for advanced users
Features with curved geometries (CircularString, CurvePolygon and CompoundCurve) are supported. Here are
three examples of such geometry types as a delimited text with WKT geometries:
Label;WKT_geom
CircularString;CIRCULARSTRING(268 415,227 505,227 406)
CurvePolygon;CURVEPOLYGON(CIRCULARSTRING(1 3, 3 5, 4 7, 7 3, 1 3))
CompoundCurve;COMPOUNDCURVE((5 3, 5 13), CIRCULARSTRING(5 13, 7 15,
9 13), (9 13, 9 3), CIRCULARSTRING(9 3, 7 1, 5 3))
Delimited Text supports also Z and M coordinates in geometries:

LINESTRINGM(10.0 20.0 30.0, 11.0 21.0 31.0)
Cargar un archivo de texto delimitado
Add Delimited Text Layer

Click the toolbar icon in the Manage layers toolbar to open the Create a Layer from a
Delimited Text File dialog, as shown in figure_delimited_text_1.
First, select the file to import (e.g., qgis_sample_data/csv/elevp.csv) by clicking on the [Browse]
button. Once the file is selected, QGIS attempts to parse the file with the most recently used delimiter. To
enable QGIS to properly parse the file, it is important to select the correct delimiter. You can specify a delimiter
by activating Custom delimiters, or by activating Regular expression delimiter and entering text into the
Expression field. For example, to change the delimiter to tab, use \t (this is a regular expression for the tab
character).

Figure 12.4: Delimited Text Dialog
Once the file is parsed, set Geometry definition to Point coordinates and choose the X and Y fields from the
dropdown lists. If the coordinates are defined as degrees/minutes/seconds, activate the DMS coordinates
checkbox.
Finally, enter a layer name (e.g., elevp), as shown in figure_delimited_text_1. To add the layer to the map, click
[OK]. The delimited text file now behaves as any other map layer in QGIS.
Tambin hay una opcin de ayuda que le permite recortar espacios iniciales y finales de los campos Recortar
campos. Adems, es posible Descartar campos vacos. Si es necesario,se puede forzar una coma para ser el
separador decimal activando El separador decimal es la coma.
If spatial information is represented by WKT, activate the Well Known Text option and select the field with the
WKT definition for point, line or polygon objects. If the file contains non-spatial data, activate No geometry
(attribute only table) and it will be loaded as an ordinal table.
Additionally, you can enable:
Utilizar ndice espacial para mejorar el rendimiento de la visualizacin y seleccin de objetos espacial-
mente.
Utilizar ndice de subconjunto.
Watch file to watch for changes to the file by other applications while QGIS is running.
12.1.3 Datos OpenStreetMap
In recent years, the OpenStreetMap project has gained popularity because in many countries no free geodata such
as digital road maps are available. The objective of the OSM project is to create a free editable map of the world
from GPS data, aerial photography or local knowledge. To support this objective, QGIS provides support for OSM
data.
Cargar vectoriales OpenStreetMap
QGIS integrates OpenStreetMap import as a core functionality.

Para conectar al servidor OSM y descargar datos, abra el men Vectorial Openstreetmap Descargar
datos.... Se puede saltar este paso si se ha obtenido un archivo XML .osm mediante JOSM, Overpass API
o cualquier otra fuente.
El men Vectorial Openstreetmap Importar topologa a partir de XML convertir su archivo .osm
en una base de datos SpatiaLite y cree una conexin de base de datos correspondiente.
The menu Vector Openstreetmap Export topology to SpatiaLite then allows you to open the database
connection, select the type of data you want (points, lines, or polygons) and choose tags to import. This
Add SpatiaLite Layer
creates a SpatiaLite geometry layer that you can add to your project by clicking on the
toolbar button or by selecting the Add SpatiaLite Layer... option from the Layer menu (see section
Capas SpatiaLite).
12.1.4 Capas PostGIS
PostGIS layers are stored in a PostgreSQL database. The advantages of PostGIS are the spatial indexing, filter-
ing and query capabilities it provides. Using PostGIS, vector functions such as select and identify work more
accurately than they do with OGR layers in QGIS.
Crear una conexin almacenada
The first time you use a PostGIS data source, you must create a connection to the PostgreSQL database that
Add PostGIS Layer
contains the data. Begin by clicking on the toolbar button, selecting the Add PostGIS
Layer... option from the Layer menu, or typing Ctrl+Shift+D. You can also open the Add Vector Layer dialog
and select Database. The Add PostGIS Table(s) dialog will be displayed. To access the connection manager,
click on the [New] button to display the Create a New PostGIS Connection dialog. The parameters required for a
connection are:
Nombre: Un nombre para esta conexin. Este puede ser el mismo como la Base de datos
Service: Service parameter to be used alternatively to hostname/port (and potentially database). This can
be defined in pg_service.conf. Check the Service connection file section for more details.
Host: Name of the database host. This must be a resolvable host name such as would be used to open a
telnet connection or ping the host. If the database is on the same computer as QGIS, simply enter localhost
here.
Puerto Nmero de puerto al servidor de base de datos PostgreSQL escucha en. El puerto por defecto es
5432.
Base de datos: Nombre de la base de datos.
SSL mode: How the SSL connection will be negotiated with the server. Note that massive speed-ups in
PostGIS layer rendering can be achieved by disabling SSL in the connection editor. The following options
are available:
Deshabilitar: Slo trata una conexin SSL cifrada.
Permitir: Trata una conexin no SSL. Si eso falla, trata una SSL.
Preferir (por defecto): Trata una conexin SSL. Si eso falla, intenta una no SSL.
Requerir: Slo intenta una conexin SSL.
Nombre de usuario: Nombre de usuario para iniciar sesin en la base de datos.
Contrasea: Contrasea utilizada con Nombre de usuario para conectarse a la base de datos.
Opcionalmente se pueden activar las siguientes casillas:
Guardar nombre de usuario

Guardar contrasea
Slo busque en la tabla geometry_columns
No se resuelve el tipo de columnas sin restriccin (GEOMETRY)
buscar slo en el esquema pblico
Listar tambin tablas sin geometra
Utilizar metadatos de tablas estimados

Una vez que todos los parmetros y opciones estn establecidos, se puede probar la conexin al hacer clic en el
botn [Probar conexin].
Truco: Use estimated table metadata to speed up operations

When initializing layers, various queries may be needed to establish the characteristics of the geometries stored
in the database table. When the Use estimated table metadata option is checked, these queries examine only a
sample of the rows and use the table statistics, rather than the entire table. This can drastically speed up operations
on large datasets, but may result in incorrect characterization of layers (eg. the feature count of filtered layers
will not be accurately determined) and may even cause strange behaviour in case columns that are supposed to be
unique actually are not.
Cargar una capa PostGIS
Once you have one or more connections defined, you can load layers from the PostgreSQL database. Of
course, this requires having data in PostgreSQL. See section Importar datos a PostgreSQL for a discussion on
importing data into the database.
Para cargar una capa de PostGIS, realizar los siguientes pasos:
If the Add PostGIS layers dialog is not already open, selecting the Add PostGIS Layer... option from the
Layer menu or typing Ctrl+Shift+D opens the dialog.
Elija la conexin de la lista desplegable y haga clic en [Conectar].
Seleccione o deseleccione Listar tambin las tablas sin geometra.
Opcionalmente, utilice algunas Opciones de bsqueda para definir que objetos espaciales se deben
cargar desde la capa, o utilice el botn [Construir consulta] al iniciar el dilogo Constructor de consultas.
Encuentre las capa(s) que desee aadir en la lista de capas disponibles.
Seleccinelo haciendo clic sobre l. Se puede seleccionar mltiples capas manteniendo pulsado la tecla
Shift mientras hace clic. Consulte la seccin Constructor de Consulta para informacin sobre utilizar el
constructor de consultas de PostgreSQL para definir an ms la capa.
Haga clic en el botn [Aadir] para agregar la capa al mapa.
Truco: Capas PostGIS

Normally, a PostGIS layer is defined by an entry in the geometry_columns table. From version 0.9.0 on, QGIS
can load layers that do not have an entry in the geometry_columns table. This includes both tables and views.
Defining a spatial view provides a powerful means to visualize your data. Refer to your PostgreSQL manual for
information on creating views.

Service connection file
The service connection file allows PostgreSQL connection parameters to be associated with a single service name.
That service name can then be specified by a client and the associated settings will be used.
Its called .pg_service.conf under *nix systems (GNU/Linux, macOS etc.) and pg_service.conf on
Windows.
The service file looks like:
[water_service]
host=192.168.0.45
port=5433
dbname=gisdb
user=paul
password=paulspass
[wastewater_service]
host=dbserver.com
dbname=water
user=waterpass
Nota: There are two services in the above example: water_service and wastewater_service. You can
use these to connect from QGIS, pgAdmin etc. by specifying only the name of the service you want to connect to
(without the enclosing brackets). If you want to use the service with psql you need to do something like export
PGSERVICE=water_service before doing your psql commands.
Nota: You can find all the parameters here
Nota: If you dont want to save the passwords in the service file you can use the .pg_pass option.
On *nix operating systems (GNU/Linux, macOS etc.) you can save the .pg_service.conf file in the users
home directory and the PostgreSQL clients will automatically be aware of it. For example, if the logged user is
web, .pg_service.conf should be saved in the /home/web/ directory in order to directly work (without
specifying any other environment variables).
You can specify the location of the service file by creating a PGSERVICEFILE environment variable (e.g. run
the export PGSERVICEFILE=/home/web/.pg_service.conf command under your *nix OS to tem-
porarily set the PGSERVICEFILE variable)
You can also make the service file available system-wide (all users) either by placing it at pg_config
--sysconfdir**/.pg_service.conf** or by adding the PGSYSCONFDIR environ-
ment variable to specify the directory containing the service file. If service definitions with the same name exist
in the user and the system file, the user file takes precedence.
Advertencia: There are some caveats under Windows:

The service file should be saved as pg_service.conf and not as .pg_service.conf.
The service file should be saved in Unix format in order to work. One way to do it is to open it with
Notepad++ and Edit -> EOL Conversion -> UNIX Format -> File save.
After adding an environment variable you may also need to restart the computer.
Algunos detalles acerca de las capas PostgreSQL
This section contains some details on how QGIS accesses PostgreSQL layers. Most of the time, QGIS should
simply provide you with a list of database tables that can be loaded, and it will load them on request. However,
if you have trouble loading a PostgreSQL table into QGIS, the information below may help you understand any
QGIS messages and give you direction on changing the PostgreSQL table or view definition to allow QGIS to
load it.

QGIS requires that PostgreSQL layers contain a column that can be used as a unique key for the layer. For tables,
this usually means that the table needs a primary key, or a column with a unique constraint on it. In QGIS, this
column needs to be of type int4 (an integer of size 4 bytes). Alternatively, the ctid column can be used as primary
key. If a table lacks these items, the oid column will be used instead. Performance will be improved if the column
is indexed (note that primary keys are automatically indexed in PostgreSQL).
If the PostgreSQL layer is a view, the same requirement exists, but views do not have primary keys or columns
with unique constraints on them. You have to define a primary key field (has to be integer) in the QGIS dialog
before you can load the view. If a suitable column does not exist in the view, QGIS will not load the layer. If this
occurs, the solution is to alter the view so that it does include a suitable column (a type of integer and either a
primary key or with a unique constraint, preferably indexed).
QGIS offers a checkbox Select at id that is activated by default. This option gets the ids without the attributes
which is faster in most cases. It can make sense to disable this option when you use expensive views.
Truco: Respaldo de base de datos PostGIS con capas guardadas por QGIS
If you want to make a backup of your PostGIS database using the pg_dump and pg_restore commands, and
the default layer styles as saved by QGIS fail to restore afterwards, you need to set the XML option to DOCUMENT
and the restore will work.
QGIS allows to filter features already on server side. Check the Execute expressions on postgres server-side if
possible (Experimental) checkbox to do so. Only supported expressions will be sent to the database. Expressions
using unsupported operators or functions will gracefully fallback to local evaluation.
12.1.5 Importar datos a PostgreSQL
Data can be imported into PostgreSQL/PostGIS using several tools, including the DB Manager plugin and the
command line tools shp2pgsql and ogr2ogr.
Administrador BBDD
DB Manager
QGIS comes with a core plugin named . It can be used to load shapefiles and other data formats, and
it includes support for schemas. See section Complemento administrador de BBDD for more information.
shp2pgsql
PostGIS incluye una utilidad llamada shp2pgsql que puede ser utilizada para importar archivos shape a la base
de datos PostGIS habilitada. Por ejemplo, importar un archivo shape llamado lakes.shp en la base de datos
PostgreSQL llamado gis_data, utilice el siguiente comando:
shp2pgsql -s 2964 lakes.shp lakes_new | psql gis_data
Esto crea una nueva capa llamada lakes_new en la base de datos gis_data. La nueva capa tendr un identi-
ficador de referencia espacial (SRID) de 2964. Vea la seccin Trabajar con Proyecciones para ms informacin
en sistema de referencia espacial y proyecciones.
Truco: Exportar conjunto de datos de PostGIS

Como la herramienta de importar shp2pgsql, tambin hay una herramienta para exportar conjuntos de datos
PostGIS como archivos shape: pgsql2shp. Esta es enviada dentro de su distribucin PostGIS.
ogr2ogr
Adems de shp2pgsql y Administrador de BBDD, hay otra herramienta para alimentar de datos geogrficos a
PostGIS: ogr2ogr. Esto es parte de su instalacin GDAL.

Para importar un archivo shape a PostGIS, realice lo siguiente:

ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=postgis host=myhost.de user=postgres
password=topsecret" alaska.shp
Esto importar el archivo shape alaska.shp a la base de datos de PostGIS postgis utilizando el usuario postgres
con la contrasea topsecret del servidor local myhost.de.
Tenga en cuenta que OGR se debe contruir con PostgreSQL para reconocer PostGIS. Se debe verificar esto escri-
biendo (en )
ogrinfo --formats | grep -i post
Si prefiere utilizar el comando de PostgreSQL COPY en lugar del mtodo predeterminado INSERT INTO, se
puede exportar la siguiente variable de entorno (al menos disponible en y ):
export PG_USE_COPY=YES
ogr2ogr no crea ndices espaciales como lo hace shp2pgsl. Se deben crear manualmente, utilizando el comando
SQL normal CREATE INDEX despus como un paso extra (como se describe en la siguiente seccin Mejorar el
desempeo).
Mejorar el desempeo
Retrieving features from a PostgreSQL database can be time-consuming, especially over a network. You can im-
prove the drawing performance of PostgreSQL layers by ensuring that a PostGIS spatial index exists on each layer
in the database. PostGIS supports creation of a GiST (Generalized Search Tree) index to speed up spatial searches
of the data (GiST index information is taken from the PostGIS documentation available at http://postgis.net).
Truco: You can use the DBManager to create an index to your layer. You should first select the layer and click
on Table > Edit table, go to Indexes tab and click on [Add spatial index].
La sintaxis para crear un ndice GiST es:

CREATE INDEX [indexname] ON [tablename]
USING GIST ( [geometryfield] GIST_GEOMETRY_OPS );
Tenga en cuenta que para tablas grandes, crear el ndice puede tomar un largo tiempo. Una vez que el ndice
es creado, se debe realizar un VACUUM ANALYZE. Vea la documentacin de PostGIS (POSTGIS-PROJECT
Referencias bibliogrficas y web) para mayor informacin.
El siguiente es un ejemplo de cmo crear un ndice GiST:
gsherman@madison:~/current$ psql gis_data
Welcome to psql 8.3.0, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms

\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help with psql commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
gis_data=# CREATE INDEX sidx_alaska_lakes ON alaska_lakes

gis_data-# USING GIST (the_geom GIST_GEOMETRY_OPS);
CREATE INDEX
gis_data=# VACUUM ANALYZE alaska_lakes;
VACUUM
gis_data=# \q
gsherman@madison:~/current$

12.1.6 Las capas vectoriales que crusan 180 de longitud
Many GIS packages dont wrap vector maps with a geographic reference system (lat/lon) crossing the 180 degrees
longitude line (http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-2.0/ST_Shift_Longitude.html). As result, if
we open such a map in QGIS, we will see two far, distinct locations, that should appear near each other. In
Figure_vector_4, the tiny point on the far left of the map canvas (Chatham Islands) should be within the grid, to
the right of the New Zealand main islands.
Figure 12.5: El mapa en lat/long cruza los 180 de la lnea de longitud
Una solucin temporal es transformar los valores de longitud utilizando PostGIS y la funcin
ST_Shift_Longitude. Esta funcin lee todos los puntos/vrtices en todos el componentes de todos los objetos
espaciales de una geometra, y si la coordenada longitud es < 0, se agregan 360. El resultado es un 0 - 360
versin de los datos que se van a representar en 180 de un mapa centrico.
Figure 12.6: Cruzar 180 de longitud aplicando la funcin ST_Shift_Longitude
Uso
Importar datos a PostGIS (Importar datos a PostgreSQL) utilizando, por ejemplo, el complemento Admin-
istrador de BBDD.
Utilizar la interfaz de lnea de comandos de PostGIS para emitir el siguiente comando (en este ejem-
plo, TABLE es el nombre actual de su tabla de PostGIS): gis_data=# update TABLE set
the_geom=ST_Shift_Longitude(the_geom);
Si todo fue bien, debe recibir una confirmacin acerca del nmero de objetos espaciales que se actualizaron.
Entonces podr cargar el mapa y ver la diferencia (Figure_vector_5).
12.1.7 Capas SpatiaLite
Add SpatiaLite Layer

The first time you load data from a SpatiaLite database, begin by clicking on the
toolbar button, or by selecting the Add SpatiaLite Layer... option from the Layer menu, or by typing

Ctrl+Shift+L. This will bring up a window that will allow you either to connect to a SpatiaLite database
already known to QGIS, which you can choose from the drop-down menu, or to define a new connection to a new
database. To define a new connection, click on [New] and use the file browser to point to your SpatiaLite database,
which is a file with a .sqlite extension.
Si desea guardar una capa vectorial a un formato SpatiaLite, se puede hacer esto al hacer clic derecho sobre la
capa en la leyenda. A continuacin, haga clic sobre Guardar como.., definir el nombre del archivo de salida, y
seleccionar SpatiaLite como formato y el SRC. Tambin se puede seleccionar SQLite como formato y entonces
aadir SPATIALITE=YES en el campo de opcion de creacin de fuente de datos. Esto le dice a OGR crear una
base de datos SpatiaLite. Tambin vea http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html.
QGIS tambin soporta vistas editables en SpatiaLite.
Crear una nueva capa SpatiaLite
Si se desea crear una nueva capa SpatiaLite, por favor consulte la seccin Crear una nueva capa SpatiaLite.
Truco: Complemento de Administracin de datos SpatiaLite

For SpatiaLite data management, you can also use several Python plugins: QSpatiaLite, SpatiaLite Manager or
DB Manager (core plugin, recommended). If necessary, they can be downloaded and installed with the Plugin
Installer.
12.1.8 Capas MSSQL Spatial
QGIS also provides native MS SQL support. The first time you load MSSQL Spatial data, begin by clicking
Add MSSQL Spatial Layer
on the toolbar button or by selecting the Add MSSQL Spatial Layer... option from the
Layer menu, or by typing Ctrl+Shift+M.
12.1.9 Capas Oracle Spatial
The spatial features in Oracle Spatial aid users in managing geographic and location data in a native type within
an Oracle database. QGIS now has support for such layers.
Crear una conexin almacenada
The first time you use an Oracle Spatial data source, you must create a connection to the database that
Add Oracle Spatial Layer
contains the data. Begin by clicking on the toolbar button, selecting the Add Oracle
Spatial Layer... option from the Layer menu, or typing Ctrl+Shift+O. To access the connection manager, click
on the [New] button to display the Create a New Oracle Spatial Connection dialog. The parameters required for
a connection are:
Nombre: Un nombre para esta conexin. Puede ser el mismo como la Base de datos
Base de datos: SID o SERVICE_NAME de la instancia de Oracle.
Host: Name of the database host. This must be a resolvable host name such as would be used to open a
telnet connection or ping the host. If the database is on the same computer as QGIS, simply enter localhost
here.
Puerto: Nmero de puerto al servidor de base de datos en donde escucha Oracle. El puerto predeterminado
es 1521.
Nombre de usuario: Nombre de usuario para iniciar sesin en la base de datos.
Contrasea: Contrasea utilizada con Nombre de usuario para conectarse a la base de datos.

Opcionalmente, se pueden activar las siguientes casillas:
Guardar nombre de usuario Indicar si guarda el nombre de usuario de la base de datos en la configu-
racin de la conexin.
Guardar contrasea Indicar si se guarda la contrasea de la base de datos en la configuracin de la

conexin.
Buscar slo en la tabla de datos meta restinge las tablas mostradas a esos que estn en la vista
all_sdo_geom_metadata. Esto puede acelerar la visualizacin inicial de tablas espaciales.
Buscar solo tablas de usuarios Cuando busca tablas espaciales, restringe la bsqueda a tablas que son
propiedad del usuario.
Listar tambin tablas sin geometra Indica que las tablas sin geometra tambin se listen de forma
predeterminada.
Utilizar metadatos de tabla estimados Cuando la capa se configura, varios metadatos son requeridos
para la tabla Oracle. Esto incluye informacin como el total de filas de la tabla, tipo de geometria y ex-
tensin espacial de los datos en la columna geometra. Si la tabla contiene un gran nmero de filas, la
determinacin de esto metadatos puede llevar mucho tiempo. Al activar esta opcin, las siguientes opera-
ciones de metadatos de tabla rpida se hacen: Total de filas se determina de all_tables.num_rows.
Extensin de la tabla siempre se determina con la funcin SDO_TUNE.EXTENTS_OF, incluso si un filtro
de capa es aplicado. La tabla de geometra se determina de los primeros 100 filas de geometra no nula en
la tabla.
Slo tipos de geometra existente Slo listar los tipos de geometra existente y no ofrecer aadir otros.
Advertencia: In the Authentication tab, saving username and password will keep unprotected credentials
in the connection configuration. Those credentials will be visible if, for instance, you shared the project
file with someone. Therefore, its advisable to save your credentials in a Authentication configuration instead
(configurations tab). See Sistema de autenticacin for more details.
Una vez que todos los parmetros y opciones estn establecidos, se puede probar la conexin al hacer clic en el
botn [Probar conexin].
Truco: Configuracin de usuario QGIS User y seguridad

Depending on your computing environment, storing passwords in your QGIS settings may be a security risk.
Passwords are saved in clear text in the system configuration and in the project files! Your customized settings for
QGIS are stored based on the operating system:
Los ajustes son almacenados en su directorio de inicio en ~/.qgis2.

Los ajustes son almacenados en el registro.
Cargar una capa Oracle Spatial
Once you have one or more connections defined, you can load layers from the Oracle database. Of course,
this requires having data in Oracle.
Para cargar una capa de Oracle Spatial, realice los siguientes pasos:
Add Oracle Spatial Layer

If the Add Oracle Spatial layers dialog is not already open, click on the toolbar
button.
Elija la conexin de la lista desplegable y haga clic en [Conectar].
Seleccione o deseleccione Listar tambin las tablas sin geometra.

Opcionalmente, utilice algunos Opciones de bsqueda para definir que objetos espaciales cargar de la
capa o utilice el botn [Construir consulta] para iniciar el dilogo Constructor de consulta.
Encuentre las capa(s) que desee aadir en la lista de capas disponibles.
Seleccionelo haciendo clic sobre l. Se puede seleccionar mltiples capas manteniendo pulsado la tecla
Shift mientras hace clic. Vea la seccin Constructor de Consulta para ms informacin sobre el uso del
Constructor de consultas de Oracle para definir an ms la capa.
Haga clic en el botn [Aadir] para agregar la capa al mapa.
Truco: Capas Oracle Spatial

Normalmente, una capa espacial de Oracle se define por una entrada en la tabla USER_SDO_METADATA.
12.2 La librera Smbolo
12.2.1 El Administrador de estilos
The Symbol Library is the place where users can manage and create generic symbols to be used in several QGIS
projects. You can open it with the Settings Style Manager or from the Style tab in the vector layers Properties.
It allows users to:
crear, editar, eliminar smbolos
organize symbols in custom groups
export and import symbols.
Figure 12.7: El Administrador de estilos
Grupos y grupos inteligentes
You can organize symbols into different categories. These categories, listed in the panel at the left, can be static
(called Group) or dynamic (named Smart Group). A group is smart when its symbols are dynamically fetched
according to conditions set. See figure_symbol_2:
To create a group, right click on an existing group or on the main Groups directory in the left of the dialog. You
Add Group
can also select a group and click the button. The new group will be a sub-group of the selected one.
Create Smart Group is similar to creating group, but instead select Smart Groups. The dialog box allows user
to choose the expression to select symbols in order to appear in the smart group (contains some tags, member of
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a group, have a string in its name, etc.). Any symbol that satisfies the entered condition(s) is automatically added
to the smart group.
Figure 12.8: Creating a Smart Group
To remove a group or a smart group, right click on the group and select Remove Group or select it and push
Remove Group
button.
Unlike the smart groups that automatically fetch their belonged symbols, simple groups are filled by the user. To
add a symbol into a group, you can either right click on a symbol, choose Apply Group and then the group name.
There is a second way to add several symbols into a group: just select the group, click and choose Group
Symbols. All symbols display a checkbox that allows you to add the symbol into the selected groups. When
selection is finished, you can click the same button, and choose Finish Grouping.
All the symbols that are not placed under a custom group belong to a default group named Ungrouped.
Adicionar, Editar, Eliminar Smbolo
Selecting a group returns in the right panel, if applicable, the list of symbols of the group (including its subgroups).
These symbols are organized in four different tabs:
Marker for point symbols
Line for linear symbols
Fill for surface symbols
and Color Ramp
Remove item
To delete a symbol you no longer need, just select it and click (also available through right-click).
The symbol will be deleted from the local symbols database.
Add item
The symbol list can be modified by adding new symbols with button or modifying existing ones with
Edit item
. See The Symbol Selector_ for further information.
Share symbols
Share item
The tool, at the right bottom of the Style Library dialog, offers options to easily share symbols with
others: users can indeed export their symbols and import symbols to their library.
Exporting symbols
You can export the selected symbols to PNG, SVG or XML file formats. Exporting to PNG or SVG (both not
available for color ramp symbols) creates a file for each selected symbol, and the SVG folder can be added to
SVG Paths in Settings Options to e.g. share these symbols on a network. The XML format generates a single
file containing all the selected symbols. This file can then be imported in another users style library.
Importar smbolos

You can extend your symbols library by importing new symbols. Just select Import from the drop-down list
at the right bottom of the dialog. In the new dialog, youll need to :
indicate the source of the symbols (it can be a .xml file on the disk or an url),
give the name of the group under which the symbols will be put
select the symbols you want to add to your library
and press Import.
Note that import and export options are also available through right-click.
Figure 12.9: Importing symbols
Color Ramp
The Color ramp tab in the Style Manager presents different types of color ramps you can use to style layers.
Add item
To create a custom color ramp, activate the Color ramp tab and click the button. The button reveals a
drop-down list to choose the ramp type: Gradient, Random, colorBrewer, or cpt-city.
The first three have options for number of steps and/or multiple stops in the color ramp. You can use the Invert
option while classifying the data with a color ramp. See figure_symbol_4 for an example of custom color ramp
and figure_symbol_4a for the cpt-city dialog.
La opcin cpt-city abre un nuevo dilogo con cientos de temas incluidos fuera de la caja.
12.2.2 El Selector de Smbolo
The Symbol selector is the main dialog to design a symbol. You can create or edit Marker, Line or Fill Symbols.
Para cada tipo de smbolo, siempre encontrar la misma estructura de dilogo:
at the top left side a dynamic symbol representation, updated as soon as symbol properties evolve
under the symbol representation, the symbol tree shows symbol layers that are combined afterwards to shape
a new global symbol. A symbol can consist of several Symbol layers. Settings will be shown later in this
chapter.
a la derecha usted puede definir algunos parmetros que se aplican al smbolo global:

Figure 12.10: Example of custom gradient color ramp with multiple stops
Figure 12.11: cpt-city dialog with hundreds of color ramps

Figure 12.12: Disear un smbolo Marcador
unit: it can be millimeter, pixel or map unit

transparencia
color: when this parameter is changed by the user, its value is echoed to all unlocked sub-symbols
color
size and rotation for marker symbol
width for line symbol
Note that the Data-defined override button beside the last layer-related parameters is inactive until the
symbol is applied to a layer. Once the symbol is connected to a layer, this button offers access to the size
assistant dialog which helps to create proportional or multivariate analysis rendering.
under these parameters are displayed items of the symbols library you can choose from. This list of symbols
can be filtered by selecting a group in the drop-down list just above.
According to the level selected in the symbol tree, youll get enabled different tools at the bottom of the dialog to
:
add new symbol layer: you can imbricate as many symbols as you want
remove the selected symbol layer
lock colors of symbol layer: a locked color stays unchanged when user changes the color at the global
(or upper) symbol level
duplicate a (group of) symbol layer(s)

move up or down the symbol layer
apply special effects to the symbol layer
guardar el cambio diseado en su biblioteca de smbolos
or choose in the Advanced drop-down list, to clip features to canvas extent.
Truco: Note that once you have set the size in the lower levels of the Symbol layers dialog, the size of the whole
symbol can be changed with the Size (for marker symbol) or the Width (for line symbol) menu in the first level
again. The size of the lower levels changes accordingly, while the size ratio is maintained.

More detailed settings can be made when clicking on the lower level in the Symbol tree. You can change each
Symbol layers properties and according to the symbol type, you get different settings.
Smbolos de marcador
Smbolos de marcador tienen varios tipos de capas de smbolos:

Marcador de elipse
Marcador de fuente
Marcador sencillo (por defecto)
Marcador SVG
Marcador campo vectorial
Para cada smbolo de marcador, puede definir las siguientes propiedades:
Tipo de capa de smbolo: Se tiene la opcin para utilizar marcadores de elipse, marcadores de fuente,
marcadores sencillos, marcadores SVG y marcadores de campo vectorial.
Colores
Tamao
Estilo de lnea exterior
Anchura de lnea exterior
ngulo
Desplazamiento X, Y: Se puede cambiar el smbolo en la direccin x- o y-.
Punto de anclaje
Propiedades definidas por datos ...
Smbolos lnea
Smbolos de lnea de marcador tienen slo dos tipos de smbolo:

Lnea de marcador
Lnea sencilla (por defecto)
The default symbol layer type draws a simple line whereas the other display a marker point regularly on the line.
You can choose different location: vertex, last and first vertex, interval, central point or on every curve point.
Marker line can have offset along the line or offset line. Finally, rotation allows you to change the orientation of
the symbol.
La siguiente configuracin est disponible:
Color
Anchura de plumilla
Desplazamiento
Estilo de plumilla
Estilo de unin
Estilo de mayusculas
Usar patrn de guiones personalizado

Unidad patrn de guiones

Smbolos de polgono
Smbolos de marcador de polgonos tambin tienen varios tipos de capas de smbolo:

Relleno de centroides
Relleno de gradiente
Patrn de relleno de lnea
Patrn de relleno de puntos
Relleno de imagen rster
Relleno SVG
Relleno shapeburst
Relleno sencillo (por defecto)
Lnea exterior: lnea de marcador (el mismo como marcador de lnea)
Lnea exterior: lnea sencilla (la misma como marcador de lnea)
La siguiente configuracin est disponible:
Colores para el contorno y el relleno.
Estilo de relleno
Estilo de borde
Ancho de borde
Desplazamiento X, Y
Using the color combo box, you can drag and drop color for one color button to another button, copy-paste color,
pick color from somewhere, choose a color from the palette or from recent or standard color. The combo box
allows you to fill in the feature with transparency. You can also just click the button to open the palette dialog.
Note that you can import color from some external software like GIMP.
Con el relleno de imagen rster se puede rellenar polgonos con una imagen de trama de azulejos. Las opciones
incluyen (datos definidos) nombre de archivo, opacidad, anchura de imagen (en pxeles, mm o unidades de mapa),
modo de coordenadas (objeto o rea de visualizacin) y la rotacin.
Gradient Fill Symbol layer type allows you to select between a Two color and Color ramp setting. You
can use the Feature centroid as Referencepoint. All fills Gradient Fill Symbol layer type is also available
through the Symbol menu of the Categorized and Graduated Renderer and through the Rule properties menu of
the Rule-based renderer.
Other possibility is to choose a shapeburst fill which is a buffered gradient fill, where a gradient is drawn from the
boundary of a polygon towards the polygons centre. Configurable parameters include distance from the boundary
to shade, use of color ramps or simple two color gradients, optional blurring of the fill and offsets.
Esto es posible solamente para dibujar los bordes del polgonos dentro del polgono. El uso de Lnea exterior:
Lnea sencilla seleccionar Dibujar lnea slo dentro del polgono.
Note: When geometry type is polygon, you can choose to disable the automatic clipping of lines/polygons to the
canvas extent. In some cases this clipping results in unfavourable symbology (eg centroid fills where the centroid
must always be the actual features centroid).
12.3 El Dialogo de las Propiedades del Vector
The Layer Properties dialog for a vector layer provides general settings to manage appearance of layer features
in the map (symbology, labeling, diagrams), interaction with the mouse (actions, map tips, form design). It also
12.3. El Dialogo de las Propiedades del Vector 99

provides information about the layer.

To access the Layer Properties dialog, double-click on a layer in the legend or right-click on the layer and select
Properties from the pop-up menu.
Truco: Switch quickly between different layer representations

Using the Styles Add combobox at the bottom of the Layer Properties dialog, you can save as many combi-
nations of layer properties settings (symbology, labeling, diagram, fields form, actions...) as you want. Then,
simply switch between styles from the context menu of the layer in Layers Panel to automatically get different
representations of your data.
12.3.1 General Menu
Use this menu to make general settings for the vector layer. There are several options available:
Informacin de Capa
Change the display name of the layer in displayed as

Define the Layer source of the vector layer
Define the Data source encoding to define provider-specific options and to be able to read the file
Coordinate Reference System
Specify the coordinate reference system. Here, you can view or change the projection of the specific vector
layer.
Create a Spatial Index (only for OGR-supported formats)
Update Extents information for a layer
View or change the projection of the specific vector layer, clicking on Specify ...
Visibilidad dependiente de escala
You can set the Maximum (inclusive) and Minimum (exclusive) scale, defining a range of scale in which features
Set to current canvas scale
will be visible. Out of this range, they are hidden. The button helps you use the current
map canvas scale as boundary of the range visibility.
Constructor de Consulta
Under the Provider Feature Filter frame, the Query Builder allows you to define a subset of the features in the
layer using a SQL-like WHERE clause and to display the result in the main window. As long as the query is
active, only the features corresponding to its result are available in the project. The query result can be saved as a
new vector layer.
The Query Builder is accessible through the eponym term at the bottom of the General menu in the Layer
Properties. Under Feature subset, click on the [Query Builder] button to open the Query builder. For example, if
you have a regions layer with a TYPE_2 field, you could select only regions that are borough in the Provider
specific filter expression box of the Query Builder. Figure_vector_general_2 shows an example of the Query
Builder populated with the regions.shp layer from the QGIS sample data. The Fields, Values and Operators
sections help you to construct the SQL-like query.

Figure 12.13: Men general en dilogo de propiedades de capas vector
Figure 12.14: Constructor de Consulta

The Fields list contains all attribute columns of the attribute table to be searched. To add an attribute column to
the SQL WHERE clause field, double click its name in the Fields list. Generally, you can use the various fields,
values and operators to construct the query, or you can just type it into the SQL box.
The Values list lists the values of an attribute table. To list all possible values of an attribute, select the attribute in
the Fields list and click the [all] button. To list the first 25 unique values of an attribute column, select the attribute
column in the Fields list and click the [Sample] button. To add a value to the SQL WHERE clause field, double
click its name in the Values list.
The Operators section contains all usable operators. To add an operator to the SQL WHERE clause field, click
the appropriate button. Relational operators ( = , > , ...), string comparison operator (LIKE), and logical operators
(AND, OR, ...) are available.
The [Test] button shows a message box with the number of features satisfying the current query, which is useful
in the process of query construction. The [Clear] button clears the text in the SQL WHERE clause text field.
The [OK] button closes the window and selects the features satisfying the query. The [Cancel] button closes the
window without changing the current selection.
QGIS treats the resulting subset acts as if it where the entire layer. For example if you applied the filter above for
Borough, you can not display, query, save or edit Anchorage, because that is a Municipality and therefore not
part of the subset.
La nica excepcin es que a menos que su capa sea parte de la base de datos, el uso del subconjunto evitar que
usted edite su capa.
12.3.2 Estilo de Menu
The Style menu provides you with a comprehensive tool for rendering and symbolizing your vector data. You
can use tools that are common to all vector data, as well as special symbolizing tools that were designed for the
different kinds of vector data. However all types share the following dialog structure: in the upper part, you
have a widget that helps you prepare the classification and the symbol to use for features and at the bottom the
Reproduccion de Capas widget.
Truco: Exportar simbologa vector

You have the option to export vector symbology from QGIS into Google *.kml, *.dxf and MapInfo *.tab files.
Just open the right mouse menu of the layer and click on Save As... to specify the name of the output file and its
format. In the dialog, use the Symbology export menu to save the symbology either as Feature symbology or as
Symbol layer symbology . If you have used symbol layers, it is recommended to use the second setting.
Representacin de elementos
The renderer is responsible for drawing a feature together with the correct symbol. Regardless layer geometry
type, there are four common types of renderers: single symbol, categorized, graduated and rule-based. For point
layers, there are a point displacement and a heatmap renderers available while polygon layers can also be rendered
with the inverted renderer.
There is no continuous color renderer, because it is in fact only a special case of the graduated renderer. The
categorized and graduated renderers can be created by specifying a symbol and a color ramp - they will set the
colors for symbols appropriately. For each data type (points, lines and polygons), vector symbol layer types are
available. Depending on the chosen renderer, the dialog provides different additional sections.
Nota: If you change the renderer type when setting the style of a vector layer the settings you made for the
symbol will be maintained. Be aware that this procedure only works for one change. If you repeat changing the
renderer type the settings for the symbol will get lost.

Representador de Smbolo nico
The Single Symbol Renderer is used to render all features of the layer using a single user-defined symbol. See
El Selector de Smbolo for further information about symbol representation.
Figure 12.15: Propiedades de lnea con smbolo nico
Truco: edit symbol directly from layer panel

If in your Layers Panel you have layers with categories defined through categorized, graduated or rule-based style
mode, you can quickly change the fill color of the symbol of the categories by right-clicking on a category and
color wheel
choose the color you prefer from a menu. Right-clicking on a category will also give you access to
the options Hide all items, Show all items and Edit symbol.
Representador Categorizado
The Categorized Renderer is used to render all features from a layer, using an user-defined symbol whose
aspect reflects the value of a selected features attribute. The Categorized menu allows you to select:
The attribute (using the Column listbox or the Set column expression function, see Expresiones chapter)
The symbol (using the El Selector de Smbolo dialog) which will be used as default for each class
The range of colors (using the Color ramp listbox) from which color applied to the symbol is selected
Then click on Classify button to create classes from the distinct value of the attribute column. Each class can be
disabled unchecking the checkbox at the left of the class name.
To change symbol, value and/or label of the class, just double click on the item you want to change.
Right-click shows a contextual menu to Copy/Paste, Change color, Change transparency, Change output unit,
Change symbol width.
The example in figure_symbology_2 shows the category rendering dialog used for the rivers layer of the QGIS
sample dataset.
Truco: Elegir y cambiar smbolos mltiples

The Symbology allows you to select multiple symbols and right click to change color, transparency, size, or width
of selected entries.

Figure 12.16: Categorized Symbolizing options
Truco: Hacer coincidir las categoras con el nombre de smbolo

In the [Advanced] menu, under the classes, you can choose one of the two first actions to match symbol name to
a category name in your classification. Matched to saved symbols match category name with a symbol name from
your Style Manager. Match to symbols from file match category name to a symbol name from an external file.
Representador Graduado
The Graduated Renderer is used to render all the features from a layer, using an user-defined symbol whose
color or size reflects the assignment of a selected features attribute to a class.
Like the Categorized Renderer, the Graduated Renderer allows you to define rotation and size scale from specified
columns.
Also, analogous to the Categorized Renderer, it allows you to select:
The attribute (using the Column listbox or the Set column expression function)
The symbol (using the Symbol selector dialog)
El formato de leyenda y la precisin
The method to use to change the symbol: color or size
The colors (using the color Ramp list) if the color method is selected
The size (using the size domain and its unit
Then you can use the Histogram tab which shows an interactive histogram of the values from the assigned field or
expression. Class breaks can be moved or added using the histogram widget.
Nota: You can use Statistical Summary panel to get more information on your vector layer. See Statistical
Summary Panel.
Back to the Classes tab, you can specify the number of classes and also the mode for classifying features within
the classes (using the Mode list). The available modes are:

Equal Interval: each class has the same size (e.g. values from 0 to 16 and 4 classes, each class has a size of
4);
Quantile: each class will have the same number of element inside (the idea of a boxplot);
Natural Breaks (Jenks): the variance within each class is minimal while the variance between classes is
maximal;
Standard Deviation: classes are built depending on the standard deviation of the values;
Pretty Breaks: Computes a sequence of about n+1 equally spaced nice values which cover the range of the
values in x. The values are chosen so that they are 1, 2 or 5 times a power of 10. (based on pretty from the
R statistical environment http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/datasets/R/html/base/html/pretty.html)
La caja de listas en el centro de la lista de menu Style crea lista de clase juntas con sus rangos, etiquetas y simbolos
que se van a reproduccion.
Click on Classify button to create classes using the chosen mode. Each classes can be disabled unchecking the
checkbox at the left of the class name.
To change symbol, value and/or label of the class, just double click on the item you want to change.
Right-click shows a contextual menu to Copy/Paste, Change color, Change transparency, Change output unit,
Change symbol width.
The example in figure_symbology_3 shows the graduated rendering dialog for the rivers layer of the QGIS sample
dataset.
Figure 12.17: Graduated Symbolizing options
Truco: Thematic maps using an expression

Categorized and graduated thematic maps can be created using the result of an expression. In the properties dialog
for vector layers, the attribute chooser is extended with a Set column expression function. So you dont need

to write the classification attribute to a new column in your attribute table if you want the classification attribute
to be a composite of multiple fields, or a formula of some sort.
Proportional Symbol and Multivariate Analysis
Proportional Symbol and Multivariate Analysis are not rendering types available from the Style rendering drop-
down list. However with the Size Assistant options applied over any of the previous rendering options, QGIS
allows you to display your point and line data with such representation. Creating proportional symbol
Proportional rendering is done by first applying to the layer the Representador de Smbolo nico. Once you set
the symbol, at the upper level of the symbol tree, the Data-defined override button available beside Size or
Width options (for point or line layers respectively) provides tool to create proportional symbology for the layer.
An assistant is moreover accessible through the menu to help you define size expression.
Figure 12.18: Varying size assistant
The assistant lets you define:

The attribute to represent, using the Field listbox or the Set column expression function (see Expre-
siones)
the scale method of representation which can be Flannery, Surface or Radius
The minimum and maximum size of the symbol
The range of values to represent: The down pointing arrow helps you fill automatically these fields with the
minimum (or zero) and maximum values returned by the chosen attribute or the expression applied to your
data.
An unique size to represent NULL values.
To the right side of the dialog, you can preview the features representation within a live-update widget. This
representation is added to the layer tree in the layer legend and is also used to shape the layer representation in the
print composer legend item.
The values presented in the varying size assistant above will set the size Data-defined override with:
coalesce(scale_exp(Importance, 1, 20, 2, 10, 0.57), 1)
Creating multivariate analysis

A multivariate analysis rendering helps you evaluate the relationship between two or more variables e.g., one can
be represented by a color ramp while the other is represented by a size.
The simplest way to create multivariate analysis in QGIS is to first apply a categorized or graduated rendering on
a layer, using the same type of symbol for all the classes. Then, clicking on the symbol [Change] button above
the classification frame, you get the El Selector de Smbolo dialog from which, as seen above, you can activate
and set the size assistant option either on size (for point layer) or width (for line layer).

Like the proportional symbol, the size-related symbol is added to the layer tree, at the top of the categorized or
graduated classes symbols. And both representation are also available in the print composer legend item.
Representacin basada en reglas
The Rule-based Renderer is used to render all the features from a layer, using rule-based symbols whose
aspect reflects the assignment of a selected features attribute to a class. The rules are based on SQL statements.
The dialog allows rule grouping by filter or scale, and you can decide if you want to enable symbol levels or use
only the first-matched rule.
To create a rule, activate an existing row by double-clicking on it, or click on + and click on the new rule. In the
Rule properties dialog, you can define a label for the rule. Press the button to open the expression string
builder. In the Function List, click on Fields and Values to view all attributes of the attribute table to be searched.
To add an attribute to the field calculator Expression field, double click on its name in the Fields and Values list.
Generally, you can use the various fields, values and functions to construct the calculation expression, or you can
just type it into the box (see Expresiones). You can create a new rule by copying and pasting an existing rule with
the right mouse button. You can also use the ELSE rule that will be run if none of the other rules on that level
matches. Since QGIS 2.8 the rules appear in a tree hierarchy in the map legend. Just double-click the rules in
the map legend and the Style menu of the layer properties appears showing the rule that is the background for the
symbol in the tree.
The example in figure_symbology_5 shows the rule-based rendering dialog for the rivers layer of the QGIS sample
dataset.
Figure 12.19: Rule-based Symbolizing options
Point displacement
The Point Displacement renderer works to visualize all features of a point layer, even if they have the same
location. To do this, the symbols of the points are placed on a displacement circle around one center symbol or on
several concentric circles.
Nota: You can still render features with other renderer like Single symbol, Graduated, Categorized or Rule-Based
renderer using the Renderer drop-down list then the Renderer Settings... button.

Figure 12.20: Point displacement dialog

Polgono Invertido
The Inverted Polygon renderer allows user to define a symbol to fill in outside of the layers polygons. As
above you can select subrenderers, namely Single symbol, Graduated, Categorized, Rule-Based or 2.5 D renderer.
Figure 12.21: Inverted Polygon dialog
Mapa de calor
With the Heatmap renderer you can create live dynamic heatmaps for (multi)point layers. You can specify
the heatmap radius in pixels, mm or map units, choose and edit a color ramp for the heatmap style and use a slider
for selecting a trade-off between render speed and quality. You can also define a maximum value limit and give a
weight to points using a field or an expression. When adding or removing a feature the heatmap renderer updates
the heatmap style automatically.
2.5 D
Using the 2.5 D renderer its possible to create a 2.5 D effect on your layers features. You start by choosing
a Height value (in map units). For that you can use a fixed value, one of your layers fields, or an expression. You
also need to choose an Angle (in degrees) to recreate the viewer position (0 means west, growing in counter clock
wise). Use advanced configuration options to set the Roof Color and Wall Color. If you would like to simulate
solar radiation on the features walls, make sure to check the Shade walls based on aspect option. You can also
simulate a shadow by setting a Color and Size (in map units).
Truco: Using 2.5 D effect with other renderers

Once you have finished setting the basic style on the 2.5 D renderer, you can convert this to another renderer
(single, categorized, graduated). The 2.5 D effects will be kept and all other renderer specific options will be
available for you to fine tune them (this way you can have for example categorized symbols with a nice 2.5 D
representation or add some extra styling to your 2.5 D symbols). To make sure that the shadow and the building

Figure 12.22: Dilogo Mapa de calor
Figure 12.23: dilogo 2.5 D

itself do not interfere with other nearby features, you may need to enable Symbols Levels ( Advanced Symbol
levels...). The 2.5 D height and angle values are saved in the layers variables, so you can edit it afterwards in the
variables tab of the layers properties dialog.
Reproduccion de Capas
From the Style tab, you can also set some options that invariabily act on all features of the layer:
Layer transparency : You can make the underlying layer in the map canvas visible with
this tool. Use the slider to adapt the visibility of your vector layer to your needs. You can also make a
precise definition of the percentage of visibility in the the menu beside the slider.
Layer blending mode and Feature blending mode: You can achieve special rendering effects with these tools
that you may previously only know from graphics programs. The pixels of your overlaying and underlaying
layers are mixed through the settings described in Modos de Mezcla.
Apply paint effects on all the layer features with the Draw Effects button.
Control feature rendering order allows you, using features attributes, to define the z-order in which they
shall be rendered. Activate the checkbox and click on the button beside. You then get the Define
Order dialog in which you:
choose a field or build an expression to apply to the layer features
set in which order the fetched features should be sorted, i.e. if you choose Ascending order, the
features with lower value are rendered under those with upper value.
define when features returning NULL value should be rendered: first or last.
You can add several rules of ordering. The first rule is applied to all the features in the layer, z-ordering
them according to the value returned. Then, for each group of features with the same value (including those
with NULL value) and thus same z-level, the next rule is applied to sort its items among them. And so on...
Once the Define Order dialog is applied, a summary of the expression(s) used to control the layer rendering
is retranscribed in the textbox beside Control feature rendering order option.
Figure 12.24: Layer rendering options
Otras Configuraciones
Niveles de smbolos
For renderers that allow stacked symbol layers (only heatmap doesnt) there is an option to control the rendering
order of each symbols levels.
For most of the renderers, you can access the Symbols levels option by clicking the [Advanced] button below
the saved symbols list and choosing Symbol levels. For the Representacin basada en reglas the option is directly
available through [Symbols levels] button, while for Point displacement renderer the same button is inside the
Rendering settings dialog.

To activate symbols levels, select the Enable symbol levels. Each row will show up a small sample of the
combined symbol, its label and the individual symbols layer divided into columns with a number next to it. The
numbers represent the rendering order level in which the symbol layer will be drawn. Lower values levels are
drawn first, staying at the bottom, while higher values are drawn last, on top of the others.
Figure 12.25: Symbol levels dialog
Nota: If symbols levels are deactivated, the complete symbols will be drawn according to their respective features
order. Overlapping symbols will simply obfuscate to other below. Besides, similar symbols wont merge with
each other.
Figure 12.26: Symbol levels activated (A) and deactivated (B) difference
Efectos de dibujo
In order to improve layer rendering and avoid (or at least reduce) the resort to other software for final rendering of
maps, QGIS provides another powerful functionality: the Draw Effects options, which adds paint effects for
customizing the visualization of vector layers.
The option is available in the Layer Properties > Style dialog, under the Layer rendering group (applying to the
whole layer) or in symbol layer properties (applying to corresponding features). You can combine both usage.
Customize effects
Paint effects can be activated by checking the Draw effects option and clicking the button,

that will open the Effect Properties Dialog (see figure_effects_1). The following effect types, with custom options
are available:
Source: Draws the features original style according to the configuration of the layers properties. The
transparency of its style can be adjusted.
Figure 12.27: Draw Effects: Source dialog
Blur: Adds a blur effect on the vector layer. The options that someone can change are the Blur type (Stack
or Gaussian blur), the strength and transparency of the blur effect.
Figure 12.28: Draw Effects: Blur dialog
Colorize: This effect can be used to make a version of the style using one single hue. The base will always
be a grayscale version of the symbol and you can use the Grayscale to select how to create it (options
are: lightness, luminosity and average). If Colorise is selected, it will be possible to mix another

color and choose how strong it should be. You can also control the Brightness, contrast and saturation
levels of the resulting symbol.
Figure 12.29: Draw Effects: Colorize dialog
Drop Shadow: Using this effect adds a shadow on the feature, which looks like adding an extra dimension.
This effect can be customized by changing the offset degrees and radius, determining where the shadow
shifts towards to and the proximity to the source object. Drop Shadow also has the option to change the blur
radius, the transparency and the color of the effect.
Figure 12.30: Draw Effects: Drop Shadow dialog
Inner Shadow: This effect is similar to the Drop Shadow effect, but it adds the shadow effect on the inside
of the edges of the feature. The available options for customization are the same as the Drop Shadow effect.
Inner Glow: Adds a glow effect inside the feature. This effect can be customized by adjusting the spread
(width) of the glow, or the Blur radius. The latter specifies the proximity from the edge of the feature where

Figure 12.31: Draw Effects: Inner Shadow dialog
you want any blurring to happen. Additionally, there are options to customize the color of the glow, with a
single color or a color ramp.
Figure 12.32: Draw Effects: Inner Glow dialog
Outer Glow: This effect is similar to the Inner Glow effect, but it adds the glow effect on the outside of the
edges of the feature. The available options for customization are the same as the Inner Glow effect.
Transform: Adds the possibility of transforming the shape of the symbol. The first options available
for customization are the Reflect horizontal and Reflect vertical, which actually create a reflection on the
horizontal and/or vertical axes. The 4 other options are:
Shear: slants the feature along the x and/or y axis
Scale: enlarges or minimizes the feature along the x and/or y axis by the given percentage
Rotation: turns the feature around its center point
and Translate changes the position of the item based on a distance given on the x and/or the y axis.

Figure 12.33: Draw Effects: Outer Glow dialog
Figure 12.34: Draw Effects: Transform dialog

There are some common options available for all draw effect types. Transparency and Blend mode options work
similar to the ones described in Reproduccion de Capas and can be used in all draw effects except for the transform
one.
One or more draw effects can used at the same time. You activate/deactivate an effect using its checkbox in the
effects list. You can change the selected effect type by using the Effect type option. You can reorder the
Move up Move down Add effect
effects using and buttons, and also add/remove effects using the and
Remove effect
buttons.
There is also a Draw mode option available for every draw effect, and you can choose whether to render
and/or to modify the symbol. Effects render from top to bottom.Render only mode means that the effect will be
visible while the Modify only mode means that the effect will not be visible but the changes that it applies will
be passed to the next effect (the one immediately below). The Render and Modify mode will make the effect
visible and pass any changes to the next effect. If the effect is in the top of the effects list or if the immediately
above effect is not in modify mode, then it will use the original source symbol from the layers properties (similar
to source).
12.3.3 Labels Menu

Labels
The core application provides smart labeling for vector point, line and polygon layers, and only requires
a few parameters. This application also supports on-the-fly transformed layers. The following menus are used to
configure the labeling of vector layers:
Text
Formatting
Buffer
Antecedentes
Shadow
Ubicacin
Representacin
To label a layer start QGIS and load a vector layer. Activate the layer in the legend and click on the
Layer Labeling Options
icon in the QGIS toolbar menu or activate the Labels tab in the layer properties dialog.
The first step is to choose the labeling method from the drop-down list. There are four options available:
Sin etiquetas
Show labels for this layer
Rule-based labeling
and Discourage other labels from covering features in this layer: allows to set a layer as just an obstacle
for other layers labels without rendering any labels of its own.
Select the Show labels for this layer option and then select an attribute column to use for labeling from the Label
with drop-down list. Click if you want to define labels based on expressions - See Define labels based on
expressions.
The following steps describe simple labeling without using the Data defined override functions, which are situated
next to the drop-down menus - see Using data-defined override for labeling for an use-case.
Men de texto
You can define the text style in the Text menu (see Figure_labels_1). Use the Type case option to influence the text
rendering. You have the possibility to render the text All uppercase, All lowercase or Capitalize first letter.
Use the Modos de Mezcla to create effects known from graphics programs.

Figure 12.35: Smart labeling of vector point layers

Men Formateo
In the Formatting menu, you can define a character for a line break in the labels with the Wrap on character
function. You can format the Line Height and the alignment. For the latter typical values are available plus Follow
label placement. When set to this mode, text alignment for labels will be dependent on the final placement of the
label relative to the point. E.g., if the label is placed to the left of the point then the label will be right aligned, and
if it is placed to the right of the point then the label will be left aligned.
For line vector layers you can include line directions symbols. There are options specifying the type of symbol
and the symbol placement.
Use the Formatted numbers option to format the numbers in an attribute table. Here, decimal places may be
inserted. If you enable this option, three decimal places are initially set by default.
Men rea de Influencia
To create a buffer, just activate the Draw text buffer checkbox in the Buffer menu. The buffer color is variable.
Here, you can also use blend modes. If the color buffers fill checkbox is activated, it will interact with partially
transparent text and give mixed color transparency results. Turning off the buffer fill fixes that issue (except where
the interior aspect of the buffers stroke intersects with the texts fill) and also allows you to make outlined text.
Men Fondo
In the Background menu, you can define with Size X and Size Y the shape of your background. Use Size type to
insert an additional Buffer into your background. The buffer size is set by default here. The background then
consists of the buffer plus the background in Size X and Size Y. You can set a Rotation where you can choose
between Sync with label, Offset of label and Fixed. Using Offset of label and Fixed, you can rotate the
background. Define an Offset X,Y with X and Y values, and the background will be shifted. When applying
Radius X,Y, the background gets rounded corners. Again, it is possible to mix the background with the underlying
layers in the map canvas using the Blend mode (see Modos de Mezcla).
Men Sombra
Use the Shadow menu for a user-defined Drop shadow. The drawing of the background is very variable. Choose
between Lowest label component, Text, Buffer and Background. The Offset angle depends on the orienta-
tion of the label. If you choose the Use global shadow checkbox, then the zero point of the angle is always
oriented to the north and doesnt depend on the orientation of the label. You can influence the appearance of the
shadow with the Blur radius. The higher the number, the softer the shadows. The appearance of the drop shadow
can also be altered by choosing a blend mode.
Men Ubicacin
Choose the Placement menu for configuring label placement and labeling priority. Note that the placement options
differ according to the type of vector layer, namely point, line or polygon.
Ubicacin para capas punto
With the Cartographic placement mode, point labels are generated with best visual relationship with the point
feature, following ideal cartographic placement rules. Labels can be placed at a set Distance either from the
point feature itself or from the bounds of the symbol used to represent the feature. The latter option is especially
useful when the symbol size isnt fixed, e.g. if its set by a data defined size or when using different symbols in a
categorized renderer.
By default, placements are prioritised in the following order:

1. arriba derecha
2. arriba izquierda
3. abajo derecha
4. abajo izquierda
5. al medio derecha
6. al medio izquierda
7. top, slightly right
8. bottom, slightly left.
Placement priority can however be customized or set for an individual feature using a data defined list of prioritised
positions. This also allows only certain placements to be used, so e.g. for coastal features you can prevent labels
being placed over the land.
The Around point setting places the label in an equal radius (set in Distance) circle around the feature. The
placement of the label can even be constrained using the Quadrant option.
In the Offset from point placement, labels are placed at a fixed offset from the point feature. You can select the
Quadrant in which to place your label. You are also able to set the X and Y offset distances between the points
and their labels and can alter the angle of the label placement with the Rotation setting. Thus, placement in a
selected quadrant with a defined rotation is possible.
Ubicacin para capas lnea
Label options for line layers include Parallel, Curved or Horizontal. For the Parallel and Curved
options, you can set the position to Above line, On line and Below line. Its possible to select several
options at once. In that case, QGIS will look for the optimal label position. For Parallel and curved placement
you can also use the line orientation for the position of the label. Additionally, you can define a Maximum angle
between curved characters when selecting the Curved option (see Figure_labels_2 ).
For all three placement options you can set up a minimum distance for repeating labels. The distance can be in
mm or in map units.
Ubicacin para capas polgono
You can choose one of the following options for placing labels in polygons: Offset from centroid, Horizontal
(slow), Around centroid, Free and Using perimeter.
In the Offset from centroid settings you can specify if the centroid is of the visible polygon or whole
polygon. That means that either the centroid is used for the polygon you can see on the map or the centroid is
determined for the whole polygon, no matter if you can see the whole feature on the map. You can place your
label within a specific quadrant, and define offset and rotation. The Around centroid setting places the label at
a specified distance around the centroid. Again, you can define visible polygon or whole polygon for the
centroid.
With the Using perimeter settings, you can define a position and a distance for the label. For the position,
Above line, On line, Below line and Line orientation dependent position are possible. You can specify
the distance between the label and the polygon outline, as well as the repeat interval for the label.
In the priority section you can define the priority with which labels are rendered for all three vector layer types
(point, line, polygon). This placement option interact with labels of the other vector layers in the map canvas. If
there are labels from different layers in the same location, the label with the higher priority will be displayed and
the others will be left out.

Figure 12.36: Smart labeling of vector line layers

Figure 12.37: Smart labeling of vector polygon layers
Rendering menu
In the Rendering menu, you can tune when the labels can be rendered and their interaction with other labels and
features.
Under Label options, you find the scale-based and the Pixel size-based visibility settings.
The Label z-index determines the order in which labels are rendered, as well in relation with other feature labels in
the layer (using data-defined override expression), as with labels from other layers. Labels with a higher z-index
are rendered on top of labels (from any layer) with lower z-index.
Additionally, the logic has been tweaked so that if 2 labels have matching z-indexes, then:
if they are from the same layer, the smaller label will be drawn above the larger label
if they are from different layers, the labels will be drawn in the same order as their layers themselves (ie
respecting the order set in the map legend).
Note that this setting doesnt make labels to be drawn below the features from other layers, it just controls the
order in which labels are drawn on top of all the layers features.
While rendering labels and in order to display readable labels, QGIS automatically evaluates the position of the
labels and can hide some of them in case of collision. You can however choose to Show all labels for this
layer (including colliding labels) in order to manually fix their placement.
With data-defined expressions in Show label and Always Show you can fine tune which labels should be rendered.
Under Feature options, you can choose to label every part of a multi-part feature and limit the number of features
to be labeled. Both line and polygon layers offer the option to set a minimum size for the features to be labeled,
using Suppress labeling of features smaller than. For polygon features, you can also filter the labels to show
according to whether they completely fit within the feature or not. For line features, you can choose to Merge
connected lines to avoid duplicate labels, rendering a quite airy map in conjunction with the Distance or Repeat
options in Placement tab.
From the Obstacles frame, you can manage the covering relation between labels and features. Activate the

Discourage labels from covering features option to decide whether features of the layer should act as obstacles
for any label (including labels from other features in the same layer). An obstacle is a feature QGIS tries as far as
possible to not place labels over. Instead of the whole layer, you can define a subset of features to use as obstacles,
data-defined override
using the control next to the option.
The priority control slider for obstacles allows you to make labels prefer to overlap features
from certain layers rather than others. A Low weight obstacle priority means that features of the layer are less
considered as obstacles and thus more likely to be covered by labels. This priority can also be data-defined, so
that within the same layer, certain features are more likely to be covered than others.
For polygon layers, you can choose the type of obstacle features could be by minimising the labels placement:
over the features interior: avoids placing labels over interior of polygon (prefers placing labels totally
outside or just slightly inside polygon)
or over the features boundary: avoids placing labels over boundary of polygon (prefers placing labels
outside or completely inside the polygon). It can be e.g. useful for regional boundary layers, where the
features cover an entire area. In this case its impossible to avoid placing labels within these features, and it
looks much better to avoid placing them over the boundaries between features.
Define labels based on expressions
Labels
QGIS allows to use expressions to label features. Just click the icon in the menu of the properties
dialog. In figure_labels_4 you see a sample expression to label the alaska regions with name and area size, based
on the field NAME_2, some descriptive text and the function $area in combination with format_number()
to make it look nicer.
Figure 12.38: Using expressions for labeling
Expression based labeling is easy to work with. All you have to take care of is that:
you need to combine all elements (strings, fields and functions) with a string concatenation function such as
concat, + or ||. Be aware that in some situations (null or numeric value involved) not all of these tools
will fit your need
strings are written in single quotes
fields are written in double quotes or without any quote.

Lets have a look at some examples:

# label based on two fields name and place with a comma as separator
"name" || , || "place"
-> John Smith, Paris
# label based on two fields name and place with other texts
My name is + "name" + and I live in + "place"
My name is || "name" || and I live in || "place"
concat(My name is , name, and I live in , "place")
-> My name is John Smith and I live in Paris
# label based on two fields name and place with other texts
# combining different concatenation functions
concat(My name is , name, and I live in || place)
-> My name is John Smith and I live in Paris

-> My name is John Smith # if the field place is NULL
# multi-line label based on two fields name and place with a descriptive text
concat(My name is , "name", \n , I live in , "place")
-> My name is John Smith
I live in Paris
# label based on a field and the $area function

# to show the place name and its rounded area size in a converted unit.
The area of || "place" || has a size of || round($area/10000) || ha
-> The area of Paris has a size of 10500 ha
# create a CASE ELSE condition. If the population value in field

# population is <= 50000 it is a town, otherwise a city.
concat(This place is a , CASE WHEN "population <= 50000" THEN town ELSE city END)
-> This place is a town
As you can see in the expression builder, you have hundreds of functions available to create simple and very
complex expressions to label your data in QGIS. See Expresiones chapter for more information and examples on
expressions.
Using data-defined override for labeling
With the data-defined override functions, the settings for the labeling are overridden by entries in the attribute
table. You can activate and deactivate the function with the right-mouse button. Hover over the symbol and you
see the information about the data-defined override, including the current definition field. We now describe an
Move label
example using the data-defined override function for the function (see figure_labels_5 ).
1. Import lakes.shp from the QGIS sample dataset.
2. Double-click the layer to open the Layer Properties. Click on Labels and Placement. Select Offset from
centroid.
3. Look for the Data defined entries. Click the icon to define the field type for the Coordinate. Choose
xlabel for X and ylabel for Y. The icons are now highlighted in yellow.
4. Zoom into a lake.
Toggle Editing
5. Set editable the layer using the button.
6. Go to the Label toolbar and click the icon. Now you can shift the label manually to another position

(see figure_labels_6). The new position of the label is saved in the xlabel and ylabel columns of the
attribute table.
Figure 12.39: Labeling of vector polygon layers with data-defined override
Figure 12.40: Mover etiquetas
Rule-based labeling
With Rule-based labeling multiple label configurations can be defined and applied selectively on the base of
expression filters, as in Rule-based rendering.
Rules can be set selecting the corresponding option at the top of the Labels panel (see figure_labels_7 ).
To create a rule, activate an existing row by double-clicking on it, or click on + and click on the new rule. Within
the panel you can set the filter expression and the related label configurations.

Figure 12.41: Rule based labeling panel
Figure 12.42: Configuracin de reglas

12.3.4 Men de Campos
Within the Fields menu, the field attributes of the selected dataset can be manipulated. The buttons
New Column Delete Column Editing mode
and can be used when the dataset is in .
Edit Widget
Figure 12.43: Dialog to select an edit widget for an attribute column
Within the Fields menu, you also find an edit widget column. This column can be used to define values or a range
of values that are allowed to be added to the specific attribute table column. If you click on the [edit widget]
button, a dialog opens, where you can define different widgets. These widgets are:
Checkbox: Displays a checkbox, and you can define what attribute is added to the column when the check-
box is activated or not.
Classification: Displays a combo box with the values used for classification, if you have chosen unique
value as legend type in the Style menu of the properties dialog.
Color: Displays a color button allowing user to choose a color from the color dialog window.
Date/Time: Displays a line field which can open a calendar widget to enter a date, a time or both. Column
type must be text. You can select a custom format, pop-up a calendar, etc.
Enumeration: Opens a combo box with values that can be used within the columns type. This is currently
only supported by the PostgreSQL provider.
File name: Simplifies the selection by adding a file chooser dialog.
Hidden: A hidden attribute column is invisible. The user is not able to see its contents.
Photo: Field contains a filename for a picture. The width and height of the field can be defined.
Range: Allows you to set numeric values from a specific range. The edit widget can be either a slider or a
spin box.
Relation Reference: This widget lets you embed the feature form of the referenced layer on the feature
form of the actual layer. See Creando relaciones uno a muchos.

Text edit (default): This opens a text edit field that allows simple text or multiple lines to be used. If you
choose multiple lines you can also choose html content.
Unique values: You can select one of the values already used in the attribute table. If Editable is activated,
a line edit is shown with autocompletion support, otherwise a combo box is used.
UUID Generator: Generates a read-only UUID (Universally Unique Identifiers) field, if empty.
Value map: A combo box with predefined items. The value is stored in the attribute, the description is
shown in the combo box. You can define values manually or load them from a layer or a CSV file.
Value Relation: Offers values from a related table in a combobox. You can select layer, key column and
value column. Several options are available to change the standard behaviours: allow null value, order by
value, allow multiple selections and use of autocompleter. The forms will display either a drop-down list or
a line edit field when completer checkbox is enabled.
Webview: Field contains a URL. The width and height of the field is variable.
Nota: QGIS has an advanced hidden option to define your own field widget using python and add it to this
impressive list of widgets. It is tricky but it is very well explained in following excellent blog that explains how
to create a real time validation widget that can be used like described widgets. See http://blog.vitu.ch/10142013-
1847/write-your-own-qgis-form-elements
Truco: Relative Path in widgets

If the path which is selected with the file browser is located in the same directory as the .qgs project file or below,
paths are converted to relative paths. This increases portability of a qgs project with multimedia information
attached. This is enabled only for File Name, Photo and Web View at this moment.
With the Attribute editor layout, you can now define built-in forms (see figure_fields_2). This is useful for data
entry jobs or to identify objects using the option auto open form when you have objects with many attributes. You
can create an editor with several tabs and named groups to present the attribute fields.
Choose Drag and drop designer and an attribute column. Use the icon to create a category to insert a tab or
a named group (see figure_fields_3). When creating a new category, QGIS will insert a new tab or named group
for the category in the built-in form. The next step will be to assign the relevant fields to a selected category with
the icon. You can create more categories and use the same fields again.
Other options in the dialog are Autogenerate and Provide ui-file.
Autogenerate just creates editors for all fields and tabulates them.
The Provide ui-file option allows you to use complex dialogs made with the Qt-Designer. Us-
ing a UI-file allows a great deal of freedom in creating a dialog. For detailed information, see
http://nathanw.net/2011/09/05/qgis-tips-custom-feature-forms-with-python-logic/.
QGIS dialogs can have a Python function that is called when the dialog is opened. Use this function to add extra
logic to your dialogs. The form code can be specified in three different ways:
load from the environment (for example in startup.py or from a plugin)
load from an external file, a file chooser will appear in that case to allow you to select a Python file from
your filesystem
load from inline code, a Python editor will appear where you can directly type your form code
In all cases you must enter the name of the function that will be called (open in the example below).
An example is (in module MyForms.py):
def open(dialog,layer,feature):
geom = feature.geometry()
control = dialog.findChild(QWidged,"My line edit")
Reference in Python Init Function like so: open

Figure 12.44: Dialog to create categories with the Attribute editor layout
Figure 12.45: Resulting built-in form with tabs and named groups

12.3.5 Men Uniones
The Joins menu allows you to join a loaded attribute table to a loaded vector layer. After clicking , the
Add vector join dialog appears. As key columns, you have to define a join layer you want to connect with the
target vector layer. Then, you have to specify the join field that is common to both the join layer and the target
layer. Now you can also specify a subset of fields from the joined layer based on the checkbox Choose which
fields are joined. As a result of the join, all information from the join layer and the target layer are displayed in
the attribute table of the target layer as joined information. If you specified a subset of fields only these fields are
displayed in the attribute table of the target layer.
QGIS currently has support for joining non-spatial table formats supported by OGR (e.g., CSV, DBF and Excel),
delimited text and the PostgreSQL provider (see figure_joins_1).
Figure 12.46: Join an attribute table to an existing vector layer
Additionally, the add vector join dialog allows you to:
Cache join layer in virtual memory
Create attribute index on the join field
Choose which fields are joined
Create a Custom field name prefix
12.3.6 Men Diagramas
The Diagrams menu allows you to add a graphic overlay to a vector layer (see figure_diagrams_1).

The current core implementation of diagrams provides support for:

pie charts, a circular statistical graphic divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. The arc length
of each slice is proportional to the quantity it represents,
text diagrams, a horizontaly divided circle showing statistics values inside
and histograms.
For each type of diagram, the menu is divided into five tabs:
Atributos
add item
Attributes defines which variables to display in the diagram. Use button to select the desired fields into
the Assigned Attributes panel. Generated attributes with Expresiones can also be used.
You can move up and down any row with click and drag, sorting how atributes are displayed. You can also change
the label in the Legend column or the attibute color by double-clicking the item.
This label is the default text displayed in the legend of the print composer or of the layer tree.
Figure 12.47: Vector properties dialog with diagram menu
Apariencia
Appearance defines how the diagram looks like. It provides general settings that do not interfere with the statistic
values such as:
the graphic transparency, its outline width and color
the width of the bar in case of histogram
the circle background color in case of text diagram, and the font used for texts
the orientation of the left line of the first slice represented in pie chart. Note that slices are displayed
clockwise.
In this menu, you can also manage the diagram visibility:
by removing diagrams that overlap others or Show all diagrams even if they overlap each other
by setting the scale visibility

Tamao
Size is the main tab to set how the selected statistics are represented. The diagram size units can be Map Units
or Millimeters. You can use :
Fixed size, an unique size to represent the graphic of all the features, except when displaying histogram
or Scaled size, based on an expression using layer attributes.
Figure 12.48: Vector properties dialog with diagram menu, Size tab
Ubicacin
Placement helps to define diagram position. According to the layer geometry type, it offers different options for
the placement:
Over the point or Around the point for point geometry. The latter variable requires a radius to follow.
Over the line or Around the line for line geometry. Like point feature, the last variable requires a distance
to respect and user can specify the diagram placement relative to the feature (above, on and/or below
the line) Its possible to select several options at once. In that case, QGIS will look for the optimal position
of the diagram. Remember that here you can also use the line orientation for the position of the diagram.
Over the centroid, Around the centroid (with a distance set), Perimeter and anywhere Inside polygon
are the options for polygon features.
The diagram can also be placed using feature data by filling the X and Y fields with an attribute of the feature.
The placement of the diagrams can interact with the labeling, so you can detect and solve position conflicts
between diagrams and labels by setting the Priority slider or the z-index value.
Opciones
The Options tab has settings only in case of histogram. You can choose whether the bar orientation should be
Up, Down, Right and Left.
Truco: Switch quickly between diagrams

Given that almost all the settings above are common to the different types of diagram, when designing your
diagram, you can easily change the diagram type and check which one is more appropriate to your data without
any loss.
Estudio de Caso
We will demonstrate an example and overlay on the Alaska boundary layer a text diagram showing temperature
data from a climate vector layer. Both vector layers are part of the QGIS sample dataset (see section Datos de
ejemplo).
Load Vector
1. First, click on the icon, browse to the QGIS sample dataset folder, and load the two vector
shape layers alaska.shp and climate.shp.
2. pulsar doble en la capa climate en la leyenda del mapa para abrir el dilogo de la :guilabel: Propiedades
de la capa
3. Click on the Diagrams menu, activate Show diagrams for this layer, and from the Diagram type
combo box, select Text diagram.
4. In the Appearance tab, we choose a light blue as background color, and in the Size tab, we set a fixed size
to 18 mm.
5. In the Position tab, placement could be set to Around Point.
6. In the diagram, we want to display the values of the three columns T_F_JAN, T_F_JUL and T_F_MEAN.
So, in the Attributes tab first select T_F_JAN and click the button, then repeat with T_F_JUL and
finally T_F_MEAN.
7. Ahora pulse [Aplicar] para mostrar el diagrama en la ventana principal de QGIS.
8. You can adapt the chart size in the Size tab. Activate the Scaled size and set the size of the diagrams on
the basis of the maximum value of an attribute and the Size option. If the diagrams appear too small on the
screen, you can activate the Increase size of small diagrams checkbox and define the minimum size of
the diagrams.
9. Change the attribute colors by double clicking on the color values in the Assigned attributes field. Fig-
ure_diagrams_3 gives an idea of the result.
10. Finalmente pulse [Aceptar]
Figure 12.49: Diagram from temperature data overlayed on a map

Remember that in the Position tab, a Data defined position of the diagrams is possible. Here, you can use
attributes to define the position of the diagram. You can also set a scale-dependent visibility in the Appearance
tab.
The size and the attributes can also be an expression. Use the button to add an expression. See Expresiones
chapter for more information and example.
12.3.7 Actions Menu
QGIS provides the ability to perform an action based on the attributes of a feature. This can be used to
perform any number of actions, for example, running a program with arguments built from the attributes of a
feature or passing parameters to a web reporting tool.
Figure 12.50: Overview action dialog with some sample actions
Actions are useful when you frequently want to run an external application or view a web page based on one or
more values in your vector layer. They are divided into six types and can be used like this:
Generic, Mac, Windows and Unix actions start an external process.
Python actions execute a Python expression.
Generic and Python actions are visible everywhere.

Mac, Windows and Unix actions are visible only on the respective platform (i.e., you can define three Edit
actions to open an editor and the users can only see and execute the one Edit action for their platform to
run the editor).
There are several examples included in the dialog. You can load them by clicking on [Add default actions]. One
example is performing a search based on an attribute value. This concept is used in the following discussion.
Definir Acciones
Attribute actions are defined from the vector Layer Properties dialog. To define an action, open the vector Layer
Properties dialog and click on the Actions menu. Go to the Action properties. Select Generic as type and provide
a descriptive name for the action. The action itself must contain the name of the application that will be executed
when the action is invoked. You can add one or more attribute field values as arguments to the application. When
the action is invoked, any set of characters that start with a % followed by the name of a field will be replaced by
the value of that field. The special characters %% will be replaced by the value of the field that was selected from
the identify results or attribute table (see using_actions below). Double quote marks can be used to group text into
a single argument to the program, script or command. Double quotes will be ignored if preceded by a backslash.
If you have field names that are substrings of other field names (e.g., col1 and col10), you should indicate that
by surrounding the field name (and the % character) with square brackets (e.g., [%col10]). This will prevent
the %col10 field name from being mistaken for the %col1 field name with a 0 on the end. The brackets will be
removed by QGIS when it substitutes in the value of the field. If you want the substituted field to be surrounded
by square brackets, use a second set like this: [[%col10]].
Using the Identify Features tool, you can open the Identify Results dialog. It includes a (Derived) item that contains
information relevant to the layer type. The values in this item can be accessed in a similar way to the other fields
by proceeding the derived field name with (Derived).. For example, a point layer has an X and Y field, and
the values of these fields can be used in the action with %(Derived).X and %(Derived).Y. The derived
attributes are only available from the Identify Results dialog box, not the Attribute Table dialog box.
Two example actions are shown below:
konqueror http://www.google.com/search?q=%nam
konqueror http://www.google.com/search?q=%%
In the first example, the web browser konqueror is invoked and passed a URL to open. The URL performs a
Google search on the value of the nam field from our vector layer. Note that the application or script called
by the action must be in the path, or you must provide the full path. To be certain, we could rewrite the first
example as: /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror http://www.google.com/search?q=%nam. This will
ensure that the konqueror application will be executed when the action is invoked.
The second example uses the %% notation, which does not rely on a particular field for its value. When the action
is invoked, the %% will be replaced by the value of the selected field in the identify results or attribute table.
Empleando Acciones
Actions can be invoked from either the Identify Results dialog, an Attribute Table dialog or from Run Fea-
Identify Features Open Attribute Table
ture Action (recall that these dialogs can be opened by clicking or or
Run Feature Action
). To invoke an action, right click on the record and choose the action from the pop-up menu. Ac-
tions are listed in the popup menu by the name you assigned when defining the action. Click on the action you
wish to invoke.
If you are invoking an action that uses the %% notation, right-click on the field value in the Identify Results dialog
or the Attribute Table dialog that you wish to pass to the application or script.
Here is another example that pulls data out of a vector layer and inserts it into a file using bash and the echo com-
mand (so it will only work on or perhaps ). The layer in question has fields for a species name taxon_name,
latitude lat and longitude long. We would like to be able to make a spatial selection of localities and export
these field values to a text file for the selected record (shown in yellow in the QGIS map area). Here is the action
to achieve this:

bash -c "echo \"%taxon_name %lat %long\" >> /tmp/species_localities.txt"
After selecting a few localities and running the action on each one, opening the output file will show something
like this:
Acacia mearnsii -34.0800000000 150.0800000000
Acacia mearnsii -34.9000000000 150.1200000000
Acacia mearnsii -35.2200000000 149.9300000000
Acacia mearnsii -32.2700000000 150.4100000000
As an exercise, we can create an action that does a Google search on the lakes layer. First, we need to determine
the URL required to perform a search on a keyword. This is easily done by just going to Google and doing a
simple search, then grabbing the URL from the address bar in your browser. From this little effort, we see that the
format is http://google.com/search?q=qgis, where QGIS is the search term. Armed with this information, we can
proceed:
1. Make sure the lakes layer is loaded.
2. Open the Layer Properties dialog by double-clicking on the layer in the legend, or right-click and choose
Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Click on the Actions menu.
4. Enter a name for the action, for example Google Search.
5. For the action, we need to provide the name of the external program to run. In this case, we can use Firefox.
If the program is not in your path, you need to provide the full path.
6. Following the name of the external application, add the URL used for doing a Google search, up to but not
including the search term: http://google.com/search?q=
7. The text in the Action field should now look like this: firefox http://google.com/search?q=
8. Click on the drop-down box containing the field names for the lakes layer. Its located just to the left of
the [Insert Field] button.
9. From the drop-down box, select NAMES and click [Insert Field].
10. Su texto de accin ahora se ve as:
firefox http://google.com/search?q=%NAMES
11. To finalize the action, click the [Add to action list] button.
This completes the action, and it is ready to use. The final text of the action should look like this:
firefox http://google.com/search?q=%NAMES
We can now use the action. Close the Layer Properties dialog and zoom in to an area of interest. Make sure the
lakes layer is active and identify a lake. In the result box youll now see that our action is visible:
When we click on the action, it brings up Firefox and navigates to the URL
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tustumena. It is also possible to add further attribute fields to the ac-
tion. Therefore, you can add a + to the end of the action text, select another field and click on [Insert Field]. In
this example, there is just no other field available that would make sense to search for.
You can define multiple actions for a layer, and each will show up in the Identify Results dialog.
You can also invoke actions from the attribute table by selecting a row and right-clicking, then choosing the action
from the pop-up menu.
There are all kinds of uses for actions. For example, if you have a point layer containing locations of images or
photos along with a file name, you could create an action to launch a viewer to display the image. You could also
use actions to launch web-based reports for an attribute field or combination of fields, specifying them in the same
way we did in our Google search example.
We can also make more complex examples, for instance, using Python actions.

Figure 12.51: Select feature and choose action
Usually, when we create an action to open a file with an external application, we can use absolute paths, or
eventually relative paths. In the second case, the path is relative to the location of the external program executable
file. But what about if we need to use relative paths, relative to the selected layer (a file-based one, like a shapefile
or SpatiaLite)? The following code will do the trick:
command = "firefox"
imagerelpath = "images_test/test_image.jpg"
layer = qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer()
import os.path
layerpath = layer.source() if layer.providerType() == ogr
else (qgis.core.QgsDataSourceURI(layer.source()).database()
if layer.providerType() == spatialite else None)
path = os.path.dirname(str(layerpath))
image = os.path.join(path,imagerelpath)
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen( [command, image ] )
We just have to remember that the action is one of type Python and the command and imagerelpath variables must
be changed to fit our needs.
But what about if the relative path needs to be relative to the (saved) project file? The code of the Python action
would be:
command="firefox"
imagerelpath="images/test_image.jpg"
projectpath=qgis.core.QgsProject.instance().fileName()
import os.path
path=os.path.dirname(str(projectpath)) if projectpath != else None
image=os.path.join(path, imagerelpath)
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen( [command, image ] )
Another Python action example is the one that allows us to add new layers to the project. For instance, the
following examples will add to the project respectively a vector and a raster. The names of the files to be added to
the project and the names to be given to the layers are data driven (filename and layername are column names of
the table of attributes of the vector where the action was created):
qgis.utils.iface.addVectorLayer(/yourpath/[% "filename" %].shp,
[% "layername" %], ogr)
To add a raster (a TIF image in this example), it becomes:

qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer(/yourpath/[% "filename" %].tif,

[% "layername" %])
12.3.8 Men de Despliegue
This menu is specifically created for Map Tips. It includes a nice feature: Map Tip display text in HTML.
While you can still choose a Field to be displayed when hovering over a feature on the map, it is also possible
to insert HTML code that creates a complex display when hovering over a feature. To activate Map Tips, select
the menu option View Map Tips.
Figure Display 1 and 2 show an example of HTML code and how it behaves in map canvas.
Figure 12.52: HTML code for map tip
Figure 12.53: Map tip made with HTML code

12.3.9 Men representacin
QGIS offers support for on-the-fly feature generalisation. This can improve rendering times when drawing many
complex features at small scales. This feature can be enabled or disabled in the layer settings using the Simplify
geometry option. There is also a global setting that enables generalisation by default for newly added layers (see
section Opciones).
Figure 12.54: Layer Geometry Simplification dialog
Nota: Feature generalisation may introduce artefacts into your rendered output in some cases. These may include
slivers between polygons and inaccurate rendering when using offset-based symbol layers.
While rendering extremely detailed layers (e.g. polygon layers with a huge number of nodes), this can cause
composer exports in PDF/SVG format to be huge as all nodes are included in the exported file. This can also make
the resultant file very slow to work with/open in other programs.
Checking Force layer to render as raster forces these layers to be rasterised so that the exported files wont
have to include all the nodes contained in these layers and the rendering is therefore sped up.
You can also do this by forcing the composer to export as a raster, but that is an all-or-nothing solution, given that
the rasterisation is applied to all layers.
12.3.10 Metadata Menu
The Metadata menu consists of Description, Attribution, MetadataURL, LegendUrl and Properties sections.
In the Properties section, you get general information about the layer, including specifics about the type and loca-
tion, number of features, feature type, and editing capabilities. The Extents table provides you with information
on the layer extent and the Layer Spatial Reference System, which is information about the CRS of the layer. This
can provide a quick way to get useful information about the layer.
Additionally, you can add or edit a title and abstract for the layer in the Description section. Its also possible to
define a Keyword list here. These keyword lists can be used in a metadata catalogue. If you want to use a title
from an XML metadata file, you have to fill in a link in the DataUrl field.
Use Attribution to get attribute data from an XML metadata catalogue.
In MetadataUrl, you can define the general path to the XML metadata catalogue. This information will be saved
in the QGIS project file for subsequent sessions and will be used for QGIS server.

In the LegendUrl section, you can provide the url of a legend image in the url field. You can use the Format
drop-down option to apply the appropriate format of the image. Currently png, jpg and jpeg image formats are
supported.
Figure 12.55: Metadata menu in vector layers properties dialog
12.3.11 Save and Share Layer Properties
Managing Custom Styles
When a layer is added to map canvas, QGIS uses by default a random symbol/color to render its features. You can
however set a default symbol in Project Properties Default styles that will be applied to each newly added
layer according to its geometry type.
But, most of the time, youd prefer to have a custom and more complex style that can be applied automatically or
manually (with less efforts) to the layers. You can achieve this goal using the Style combobox at the bottom of the
Layer Properties dialog. This combobox provides you with functions to create, load and manage styles.
A style stores any information set in the layer properties dialog to render or interact with the features (including
symbology, labeling, action, diagram... settings).
By default, the style applied to a loaded layer is named default. Once you have got the ideal and appropriate
rendering for your layer, you can save it by clicking the Style combobox and choose:
Rename Current: The active style gets renamed and updated with the current options
Add: A new style is created using the current options.
At the bottom of the Style drop-down list, you see the styles set for the layer and the active one is checked. Once
you have more than one style defined for a layer, a Remove Current option can help you delete those you no
longer want.
Note that each time you validate the layer properties dialog, the active style is updated with the changes youve
done.

Figure 12.56: Style combobox options
You can create as many styles as you wish for a layer but only one can be active at a time. Combined to layer
visibility preset, this offers a quick and powerful way to manage complex projects with few layers (no need to
duplicate any layer in the map legend).
Truco: Manage styles from layer context menu

Right-click on the layer in Layers Panel to add, rename or remove layer style. You can also edit feature symbols.
Storing Style in a File or a Database
While these styles are saved inside the project and can be copied and pasted from layer to layer in the project,
its also possible to save them outside the project so that they can be loaded in another project. Clicking the
Style Save Style saves the symbol as a QGIS layer style file (.qml) or SLD file (.sld). SLDs can be
exported from any type of renderer single symbol, categorized, graduated or rule-based but when importing
an SLD, either a single symbol or rule-based renderer is created. That means that categorized or graduated styles
are converted to rule-based. If you want to preserve those renderers, you have to stick to the QML format. On the
other hand, it can be very handy sometimes to have this easy way of converting styles to rule-based.
If the datasource of the layer is a database (PostGIS or Spatialite for example), you can also save your layer style
inside a table of the database. Just click on Save Style combobox and choose Save in database item then fill in the
dialog to define a style name, add a description, an ui file if applicable and check if the style is the default style.
You can add several style in the database. However each table can have only one default style.
When loading a layer in QGIS, if a default style already exists for this layer, QGIS will load the layer and its style.
After you modified the layer style, you can Save as Default, creating a new style that becomes the default one or
Restore Default style if youre not satisfied.
Truco: Quickly share a layer style within the project

You can also share layer style within a project without importing a file or database style: right-click on the layer
in the Layers Panel and, from the Styles combobox , copy the style of a layer and paste it to a group or a selection
of layers: the style is applied to all the layers that are of the same type (vector vs raster) as the original layer and,
in case of vector, have the same geometry type (point, line or polygon).

Figure 12.57: Save Style in database Dialog
12.4 Expresiones
Expression Builder
The Expressions feature is available from many parts in QGIS. It can be accessed using the , the
Select By Expression... Field calculator Data defined override
, the Geometry generator symbol layer option, the or the
tool. Based on layer data and prebuilt or user defined functions, it offers a powerful way to manipulate attribute
value, geometry and variables in order to dynamically change the geometry style, the content or position of the
label, the value for diagram, the height of a composer item, select some features, create virtual field ...
Algn ejemplo:
From Field Calculator, calculate a pop_density field using existing total_pop and area_km2 fields:
"total_pop" / "area_km2"
Update the field density_level with categories according to the pop_density values:
CASE WHEN "pop_density" < 50 THEN Low population density
WHEN "pop_density" >= 50 and "pop_density" < 150 THEN Medium population density
WHEN "pop_density" >= 150 THEN High population density
END
Apply a categorized style to all the features according to whether their average house price is smaller or
higher than 10000C per square metre:
"price_m2" > 10000
Using the Select By Expression... tool, select all the features representing areas of High population
density and whose average house price is higher than 10000C per square metre:
"density_level" = High population density and "price_m2" > 10000
Likewise, the previous expression could also be used to define which features should be labeled or shown in the
map. Using expressions offers you a lot of possibilities.
The Expressions feature offers access to the:
Expression tab which lists functions to use
Function Editor tab which helps to create custom functions to use in the expressions.
12.4.1 Functions List
The Expression tab contains functions as well as layers fields and values. It contains widgets to:

Figure 12.58: The Expression tab
type expressions using functions and/or fields. A preview of the expressions result is displayed at the
bottom of the dialog.
select the appropriate function among a list. A search box is available to filter the list and quickly find a
particular function or field. Double-clicking on the items name adds it to the expression being written.
display help for each function selected. When a field is selected, this widget shows a sample of its values.
Double-clicking a value adds it to the expression.
To help to quickly find a function, they are organized in groups. In Operators, you find mathematical operators.
Look in Math for mathematical functions. The Conversions group contains functions that convert one data type
to another. The String group provides functions for data strings, such as Date and Time handles date and time
data. In the Geometry group, you find functions for geometry objects. With Record group functions, you can add
a numeration to your data set while Fields and Values group helps view all attributes of the attribute table. The
Customs group lists the functions created or imported by the user. There are many other groups, listed below.
Operadores
This group contains operators (e.g., +, -, *). Note that for most of the mathematical functions below, if one of the
inputs is NULL then the result is NULL.
12.4. Expresiones 143

Funcin Descripcin
a+b Addition of two values (a plus b)
a-b Subtraction of two values (a minus b).
a*b Multiplication of two values (a multiplied by b)
a/b Division of two values (a divided by b)
a%b Remainder of division of a by b (eg, 7 % 2 = 1, or 2 fits into 7 three times with remainder
1)
a^b Power of two values (for example, 2^2=4 or 2^3=8)
a<b Compares two values and evaluates to 1 if the left value is less than the right value (a is
smaller than b)
a <= b Compares two values and evaluates to 1 if the left value is less than or equal to the right
value
a <> b Compares two values and evaluates to 1 if they are not equal
a=b Compares two values and evaluates to 1 if they are equal
a != b a and b are not equal
a>b Compara dos valores y evala como 1 si el valor izquierdo es mayor que el valor derecho
(a es mayor que b)
a >= b Compara dos valores y evala a 1 si el valor de la izquierda es mayor que o igual que el
valor de la derecha
a~b a matches the regular expression b
|| Joins two values together into a string. If one of the values is NULL the result will be
NULL
\n Inserta una nueva lnea en una cadena
LIKE Devuelve 1 si el primer parmetro coincide con el patrn provisto
ILIKE Returns 1 if the first parameter matches case-insensitive the supplied pattern (ILIKE can
be used instead of LIKE to make the match case-insensitive)
a IS b Tests whether two values are identical. Returns 1 if a is the same as b
a OR b Devuelve 1 cuando condicin a or b es verdadera
a AND b Devuelve 1 cuando las condiciones a y b son verdaderas
NOT Niega una condicin
column name Value of the field column name, take care to not be confused with simple quote, see
column name below
string a string value, take care to not be confused with double quote, see above
NULL valor nulo
a IS NULL a no tiene valor
a IS NOT NULL a tiene valor
a IN a esta debajo de los valores listados
(value[,value])
a NOT IN a no est debajo de los valores listados
(valor[,valor])
Algn ejemplo:
Une una cadena de texto y un valor de un nombre de columna:
My features id is: || "gid"
Test if the description attribute field starts with the Hello string in the value (note the position of the %
character):
"description" LIKE Hello%
Condicionales
Este grupo contiene funciones para menejar comprobaciones condicionales en expresiones.

Funcin Descripcin
CASE WHEN ... THEN ... Evala una expresin y devuelve un resultado si es verdadera. Puede probar
END mltiples condiciones
CASE WHEN ... THEN ... Evala una expresin y devuelva un resultado diferente sea verdadero o falso.
ELSE ... END Puede probar mltiples condiciones
coalesce Devuelve el primer valor no-NULO de la lista de expresin
si Tests a condition and returns a different result depending on the conditional
check
regexp_match Returns true if any part of a string matches the supplied regular expression
Algn ejemplo:
Send back a value if the first condition is true, else another value:
CASE WHEN "software" LIKE %QGIS% THEN QGIS ELSE Other END
Funciones Matemticas
This group contains math functions (e.g., square root, sin and cos).
Funcin Descripcin
abs Devuelve el valor absoluto de un nmero
arcos Devuelve la inversa del coseno de un valor en radianes
arcsen Devuelve la inversa del seno de un valor en radianes
atan Devuelve la inversa del coseno de un valor en radianes
atan2(y,x) Returns the inverse tangent of y/x by using the signs of the two arguments to determine the
quadrant of the result
az- Returns the north-based azimuth as the angle in radians measured clockwise from the vertical
imuth(a,b) on point a to point b
ceil Rounds a number upwards
clamp Restricts an input value to a specified range
cos Devuelve el coseno de un valor en radianes
grados Convierte de radianes a grados
exp Devuelve la exponencial de un valor
floor Rounds a number downwards
ln Returns the natural logarithm of the passed expression
log Returns the value of the logarithm of the passed value and base
log10 Returns the value of the base 10 logarithm of the passed expression
mx Returns the largest value in a set of values
mn Returns the smallest value in a set of values
pi Returns the value of pi for calculations
radianes Converts from degrees to radians
rand Returns the random integer within the range specified by the minimum and maximum argument
(inclusive)
randf Returns the random float within the range specified by the minimum and maximum argument
(inclusive)
round Rounds to number of decimal places
scale_exp Transforms a given value from an input domain to an output range using an exponential curve
scale_linear Transforms a given value from an input domain to an output range using linear interpolation
sen Returns the sine of an angle
sqrt Returns the square root of a value
tan Returns the tangent of an angle
Funciones de Color
This group contains functions for manipulating colors.

Funcin Descripcin
color_cmyk Returns a string representation of a color based on its cyan, magenta, yellow and black
components
color_cmyka Returns a string representation of a color based on its cyan, magenta, yellow, black and alpha
(transparency) components
color_hsl Returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation, and lightness attributes
color_hsla Returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation, lightness and alpha
(transparency) attributes
color_hsv Returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation, and value attributes
color_hsva Returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation, value and alpha
(transparency) attributes
color_part Returns a specific component from a color string, eg the red component or alpha component
color_rgb Returns a string representation of a color based on its red, green, and blue components
color_rgba Returns a string representation of a color based on its red, green, blue, and alpha (transparency)
components
ms oscuro Returns a darker (or lighter) color string
ms claro Returns a lighter (or darker) color string
project_color Returns a color from the projects color scheme
ramp_color Returns a string representing a color from a color ramp
set_color_partSets a specific color component for a color string, eg the red component or alpha component
Conversiones
This group contains functions to convert one data type to another (e.g., string to integer, integer to string).
Funcin Descripcin
to_date Convierte una cadena de texto en un objeto fecha
to_datetime Converts a string into a datetime object
to_int Convierte una cadena de texto a nmero entero
to_interval Converts a string to an interval type (can be used to take days, hours, months, etc. of a date)
to_real Convierte una cadena de texto en nmero real
to_string Converts number to string
to_time Converts a string into a time object
Funciones personalizadas
This group contains functions created by the user. See function_editor for more details.
Funciones de Fecha y Hora
Este grupo contiene funciones para manipular datos de fecha y hora.

Funcin Descripcin
edad Returns as an interval the difference between two dates or datetimes
da Extracts the day from a date or datetime, or the number of days from an interval
day_of_week Returns a number corresponding to the day of the week for a specified date or datetime
hora Extracts the hour from a datetime or time, or the number of hours from an interval
minuto Extracts the minute from a datetime or time, or the number of minutes from an interval
mes Extracts the month part from a date or datetime, or the number of months from an interval
now() Returns current date and time
segundo Extracts the second from a datetime or time, or the number of seconds from an interval
semana Extracts the week number from a date or datetime, or the number of weeks from an interval
year Extracts the year part from a date or datetime, or the number of years from an interval
Algn ejemplo:
Get the month and the year of today in the format 10/2014

month(now()) || / || year(now())
Campos y Valores
Contains a list of fields from the layer.

Generally, you can use the various fields, values and functions to construct the calculation expression, or you can
just type it into the box.
To display the values of a field, you just click on the appropriate field and choose between Load top 10 unique
values and Load all unique values. On the right side, the Field Values list opens with the unique values. At the
top of the list, a search box helps filtering the values. To add a value to the expression you are writing, double
click its name in the list.
Sample values can also be accessed via right-click. Select the field name from the list, then right-click to access a
context menu with options to load sample values from the selected field.
Fields name should be double-quoted in the expression. Values or string should be simple-quoted.
Fuzzy Matching Functions
This group contains functions for fuzzy comparisons between values.

Funcin Descripcin
ham- Returns the number of characters at corresponding positions within the input strings where
ming_distance the characters are different
levensheim Returns the minimum number of character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions)
required to change one string to another. Measure the similarity between two strings
longest_common_substring
Returns the longest common substring between two strings
soundex Returns the Soundex representation of a string
Funciones Generales
This group contains general assorted functions.

Funcin Descripcin
eval Evaluates an expression which is passed in a string. Useful to expand dynamic parameters
passed as context variables or fields
layer_propertyReturns a property of a layer or a value of its metadata. It can be layer name, crs, geometry
type, feature count...
var Returns the value stored within a specified variable. See variable functions below
Funciones de Geometra
This group contains functions that operate on geometry objects (e.g., length, area).
Funcin Descripcin
$area Returns the area size of the current feature
$geometry Returns the geometry of the current feature (can be used for processing with other functions)
$length Returns the length of the current line feature
$perimeter Returns the perimeter of the current polygon feature
$x Returns the x coordinate of the current feature
$x_at(n) Returns the x coordinate of the nth node of the current features geometry
$y Returns the y coordinate of the current feature
$y_at(n) Returns the y coordinate of the nth node of the current features geometry
area Returns the area of a geometry polygon feature. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of this

Table 12.1 proviene de la pgina

Funcin Descripcin
bounds Returns a geometry which represents the bounding box of an input geometry. Calculations are in the Spa
bounds_height Returns the height of the bounding box of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System o
bounds_width Returns the width of the bounding box of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System o
buffer Returns a geometry that represents all points whose distance from this geometry is less than or equal to d
centroid Returns the geometric center of a geometry
closest_point Returns the point on a geometry that is closest to a second geometry
combine Returns the combination of two geometries
contains(a,b) Returns 1 (true) if and only if no points of b lie in the exterior of a, and at least one point of the interior o
convex_hull Returns the convex hull of a geometry (this represents the minimum convex geometry that encloses all ge
crosses Returns 1 (true) if the supplied geometries have some, but not all, interior points in common
difference(a,b) Returns a geometry that represents that part of geometry a that does not intersect with geometry b
disjoint Returns 1 (true) if the geometries do not share any space together
distance Returns the minimum distance (based on spatial ref) between two geometries in projected units
end_point Returns the last node from a geometry
exterior_ring Returns a line string representing the exterior ring of a polygon geometry. If the geometry is not a polygo
extrude(geom,x,y) Returns an extruded version of the input (Multi-)Curve or (Multi-)Linestring geometry with an extension
geom_from_gml Returns a geometry created from a GML representation of geometry
geom_from_wkt Returns a geometry created from a well-known text (WKT) representation
geom_to_wkt Returns the well-known text (WKT) representation of the geometry without SRID metadata
geometry Returns a features geometry
geometry_n Returns the nth geometry from a geometry collection, or null if the input geometry is not a collection
interior_ring_n Returns the geometry of the nth interior ring from a polygon geometry, or null if the geometry is not a po
intersection Returns a geometry that represents the shared portion of two geometries
intersects Tests whether a geometry intersects another. Returns 1 (true) if the geometries spatially intersect (share a
intersects_bbox Tests whether a geometrys bounding box overlaps another geometrys bounding box. Returns 1 (true) if
is_closed Returns true if a line string is closed (start and end points are coincident), false if a line string is not close
longitud Returns length of a line geometry feature (or length of a string)
m Returns the m value of a point geometry
make_line Creates a line geometry from a series of point geometries
make_point(x,y,z,m) Returns a point geometry from x and y values (and optional z and m values)
make_point_m(x,y,m) Returns a point geometry from x and y coordinates and m values
make_polygon Creates a polygon geometry from an outer ring and optional series of inner ring geometries
nodes_to_points Returns a multipoint geometry consisting of every node in the input geometry
num_geometries Returns the number of geometries in a geometry collection, or null if the input geometry is not a collectio
num_interior_rings Returns the number of interior rings in a polygon or geometry collection, or null if the input geometry is
num_points Devuelve el nmero de vrtices de una geometra.
num_rings Returns the number of rings (including exterior rings) in a polygon or geometry collection, or null if the
order_parts Orders the parts of a MultiGeometry by a given criteria
solapa Tests whether a geometry overlaps another. Returns 1 (true) if the geometries share space, are of the sam
perimeter Devuelve el permetro de un objeto de geometra poligonal. Los clculos estn en el Sistema de Referenc
point_n Returns a specific node from a geometry
point_on_surface Returns a point guaranteed to lie on the surface of a geometry
relate Prueba o devuelve la representacin del Modelo de Interseccin 9 Extendido Dimensional (DE-9IM) de
invertir Reverses the direction of a line string by reversing the order of its vertices
segments_to_lines Returns a multi line geometry consisting of a line for every segment in the input geometry
shortest_line Returns the shortest line joining two geometries. The resultant line will start at geometry 1 and end at ge
start_point Returns the first node from a geometry
sym_difference Returns a geometry that represents the portions of two geometries that do not intersect
toca Tests whether a geometry touches another. Returns 1 (true) if the geometries have at least one point in co
Transformar Returns the geometry transformed from the source CRS to the destination CRS
Convertir Returns a translated version of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of this geom
unin Returns a geometry that represents the point set union of the geometries
within (a,b) Tests whether a geometry is within another. Returns 1 (true) if geometry a is completely inside geometry
x Devuelve la coordenada X de una geometra de tipo punto o la coordenada X del centroide de una geome
x_min Returns the minimum x coordinate of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of th

Table 12.1 proviene de la pgina

Funcin Descripcin
x_max Returns the maximum x coordinate of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of th
y Returns the y coordinate of a point geometry, or the y coordinate of the centroid for a non-point geometry
y_min Returns the minimum y coordinate of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of th
y_max Returns the maximum y coordinate of a geometry. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of th
z Returns the z coordinate of a point geometry
Algn ejemplo:
Return the x coordinate of the current features centroid:
x($geometry)
Send back a value according to features area:

CASE WHEN $area > 10 000 THEN Larger ELSE Smaller END
Registro Funciones
Este grupo contiene funciones que operan sobre identificadores de registros.

Funcin Descripcin
$current- Returns the current feature being evaluated. This can be used with the attribute function to
feature evaluate attribute values from the current feature.
$id Returns the feature id of the current row
$map Returns the id of the current map item if the map is being drawn in a composition, or canvas if
the map is being drawn within the main QGIS window
$rownum Returns the number of the current row
$scale Returns the current scale of the map canvas
attribute Returns the value of a specified attribute from a feature.
get_feature Devuelve el primer objeto de una capa que coincide con un valor de atributo dado.
uuid Generates a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for each row. Each UUID is 38 characters long
Algn ejemplo:
Return the first feature in layer LayerA whose field id has the same value as the field name of the
current feature (a kind of jointure):
get_feature( layerA, id, attribute( $currentfeature, name) )
Calculate the area of the joined feature from the previous example:
area( geometry( get_feature( layerA, id, attribute( $currentfeature, name) ) ) )
Funciones de cadena
This group contains functions that operate on strings (e.g., that replace, convert to upper case).

Funcin Descripcin
concat Concatenates several strings to one
format Formats a string using supplied arguments
for- Formats a date type or string into a custom string format
mat_date
for- Devuelve un nmero formateado con el separador local de miles (tambin trunca el nmero al
mat_number nmero de decimales indicado)
left(string, Returns a substring that contains the n leftmost characters of the string
n)
longitud Returns length of a string (or length of a line geometry feature)
lower converts a string to lower case
lpad Returns a string with supplied width padded using the fill character
reg- Returns a string with the supplied regular expression replaced
exp_replace
reg- Returns the portion of a string which matches a supplied regular expression
exp_substr
remplazar Returns a string with the supplied string replaced
right(cadena, Devuelve una subcadena que contiene los n caracteres ms a la derecha de la cadena.
n)
rpad Returns a string with supplied width padded using the fill character
strpos Returns the index of a regular expression in a string
substr Devuelve una parte de una cadena.
Ttulo Converts all words of a string to title case (all words lower case with leading capital letter)
trim Elimina todos los espacios en blanco (espacios, tabuladores, etc.) de comienzo y final de una
cadena.
upper Converts string a to upper case
wordwrap Returns a string wrapped to a maximum/ minimum number of characters
Funciones recientes
This group contains recently used functions. Any expression used in the Expression dialog is added to the list,
sorted from the more recent to the less one. This helps to quickly retrieve any previous expression.
Variables Functions
This group contains dynamic variables related to the application, the project file and other settings. It means that
some functions may not be available according to the context:
Select by expression
from the dialog
Field calculator
from the dialog
from the layer properties dialog
desde el diseador de impresin
To use these functions in an expression, they should be preceded by @ character (e.g, @row_number). Are
concerned:
Funcin Descripcin
atlas_feature Devuelve el objeto del atlas actual (como objeto espacial)
atlas_featureid Devuelve el ID de objeto del atlas actual.
atlas_featurenumber Devuelve el nmero de pginas de la composicin
atlas_filename Devuelve el nombre de archivo del atlas actual.
atlas_geometry Devuelve la geometra de objeto del atlas actual
atlas_pagename Devuelve el nombre de la pgina del atlas actual
atlas_totalfeatures Devuelve el nmero total de objetos en el atlas.

Table 12.2 proviene de la pgina anterior

Funcin Descripcin
grid_axis Devuelve el eje de la anotacin de la cuadrcula actual (ej.: x para longitud, y para latitud).
grid_number Devuelve el valor de anotacin de la cuadrcula actual.
item_id Returns the composer item user ID (not necessarily unique)
item_uuid Devuelve el ID nico del elemento del diseador
layer_id Devuelve el ID de la capa actual
layer_name Devuelve el nombre de la capa actual
layout_dpi Devulve la resolucin de la composicin (DPI).
layout_numpages Devuelve el nmero de pginas de la composicin.
layout_pageheight Devuelve la anchura de la composicin en mm.
layout_pagewidth Devuelve la anchura de la composicin en mm.
map_id Devuelve el ID del destino actual del mapa. Ser lienzo para renderizadores de la vista del mapa y la ID d
map_extent_center Returns the point feature at the center of the map
map_extent_height Returns the current height of the map
map_extent_width Returns the current width of the map
map_rotation Devuelve la rotacin actual del mapa
map_scale Devuelve la escala actual del mapa
project_filename Devuelve el nombre del proyecto actual
project_folder Devuelve la carpeta del proyecto actual.
project_path Devuelve la ruta completa (incluido el nombre de archivo) del proyecto actual.
project_title Devuelve el Ttulo del proyecto actual.
qgis_os_name Devuelve el nombre del sistema operativo, ej. Windows, Linux o OSX.
qgis_platform Devuelve la plataforma de QGIS, ej. Escritorio o Servidor.
qgis_release_name Devuelve el nombre de la versin actual de QGIS
qgis_version Devuelve la versin actual de QGIS como cadena
qgis_version_no Devuelve la versin actual de QGIS como nmero
symbol_angle Devuelve el ngulo del smbolo usado para representar el objeto (solo vlido para smbolos de marcador).
symbol_color Returns the color of the symbol used to render the feature
user_account_name Devuelve el nombre de la cuenta del sistema operativo del usuario actual.
user_full_name Devuelve el nombre de usuario del sistema operativo del usuario actual.
row_number Guarda el nmero de la fila actual.
12.4.2 Editor de Funciones
With the Function Editor, you are able to define your own Python custom functions in a comfortable way.
Figure 12.59: The Function Editor tab

The function editor will create new Python files in .qgis2\python\expressions folder and will auto load
all functions defined when starting QGIS. Be aware that new functions are only saved in the expressions
folder and not in the project file. If you have a project that uses one of your custom functions you will need to also
share the .py file in the expressions folder.
Heres a short example on how to create your own functions:
@qgsfunction(args="auto", group=Custom)
def myfunc(value1, value2, feature, parent):
pass
The short example creates a function myfunc that will give you a function with two values. When using the
args=auto function argument the number of function arguments required will be calculated by the number of
arguments the function has been defined with in Python (minus 2 - feature, and parent).
This function then can be used with the following expression:
myfunc(test1, test2)
Your function will be implemented in the Custom functions group of the Expression tab after using the Run Script
button.
Further information about creating Python code can be found in the PyQGIS-Developer-Cookbook.
The function editor is not only limited to working with the field calculator, it can be found whenever you work
with expressions.
12.5 Trabajar con la tabla de atributos
Los objetos espaciales mostrados tabla de atributos de una capa seleccionada. Cada fila en la tabla representa
un objeto espacial en el mapa, y cada columna contiene una pieza importante de informacin acerca del objeto
espacial. Los objetos espaciales en la tabla se pueden buscar, seleccionar y mover o incluso editar.
To open the attribute table for a vector layer, make the layer active by clicking on it in the map legend area. Then,
from the main Layer menu, choose Open Attribute Table. It is also possible to right click on the layer and
choose Open Attribute Table from the drop-down menu, and to click on the Open Attribute Table button
in the Attributes toolbar.
This will open a new window that displays the feature attributes for the layer (figure_attributes_1). The number
of features and the number of selected features are shown in the attribute table title.
Figure 12.60: Attribute Table for regions layer
The buttons at the top of the attribute table window provide the following functionality:

Toggle editing mode

to enable editing functionalities (also with Ctrl+e)
Save Edits
(also with Ctrl+s)
Reload the table

Add feature

Delete selected features
(also with Ctrl+d)
Select features using an Expression

Select all
(also with Ctrl+a)
Invert selection
(also with Ctrl+r)
Deseleccionar todo
(tambin con Ctrl+u)
Move selected to top

(also with Ctrl+t)
Pan map to the selected rows

(also with Ctrl+p)
Zoom map to the selected rows

(also with Ctrl+j)

(also with Ctrl+c)
Paste from clipboard to a new row

(also with Ctrl+v)
Delete Column
for PostGIS layers and for OGR layers with GDAL version >= 1.9 (also with Ctrl+l)
New Column
for PostGIS layers and for OGR layers with GDAL version >= 1.6 (also with Ctrl+w)
Open field calculator

(also with Ctrl+i)
Below these buttons is the Field Calculator bar (enabled only in editing mode), which allows calculations to be
quickly applied to either all or selected features attributes in the table. This bar uses the same expressions as the
Field Calculator
(see Calculadora de Campo).
Truco: Skip WKT geometry

If you want to use attribute data in external programs (such as Excel), use the button.
You can copy the information without vector geometries if you deactivate Settings Options Data sources
menu Copy geometry in WKT representation from attribute table.
12.5.1 Seleccionar elementos en una tabla de atributos
Each selected row in the attribute table displays the attributes of a selected feature in the layer. If the set of
features selected in the main window is changed, the selection is also updated in the attribute table. Likewise, if
the set of rows selected in the attribute table is changed, the set of features selected in the main window will be
updated.
Rows can be selected by clicking on the row number on the left side of the row. Multiple rows can be marked by
holding the Ctrl key. A continuous selection can be made by holding the Shift key and clicking on several
row headers on the left side of the rows. All rows between the current cursor position and the clicked row are
selected. Moving the cursor position in the attribute table, by clicking a cell in the table, does not change the row
selection. Changing the selection in the main canvas does not move the cursor position in the attribute table.
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The table can be sorted by any column, by clicking on the column header. A small arrow indicates the sort order
(downward pointing means descending values from the top row down, upward pointing means ascending values
from the top row down).
For a simple search by attributes on only one column, choose the Column filter from the menu in the bottom
left corner. Select the field (column) on which the search should be performed from the drop-down menu, and hit
the [Apply] button. Then, only the matching features are shown in the attribute table.
Select features using an Expression

To make a selection, you have to use the icon on top of the attribute table.
Select features using an Expression Field Calculator
allows you to define a subset of a table using a Function List like in the
(see Calculadora de Campo). The query result can then be saved as a new vector layer. For example, if you want
to find regions that are boroughs from regions.shp of the QGIS sample data, you have to open the Fields and
Values menu and choose the field that you want to query. Double-click the field TYPE_2 and also [Load all
unique values] . From the list, choose and double-click Borough. In the Expression field, the following query
appears:
"TYPE_2" = Borough
Here you can also use the Function list Recent (Selection) to make a selection that you used before. The
expression builder remembers the last 20 used expressions.
The matching rows will be selected, and the total number of matching rows will appear in the title bar of the
attribute table, as well as in the status bar of the main window. For searches that display only selected features on
the map, use the Query Builder described in section Constructor de Consulta.
To show selected records only, use Show Selected Features from the menu at the bottom left. See next section for
more information on filter feature.
The field calculator bar allows you to make calculations on the selected rows only. For example, you can alter the
number of the ID field of the layer regions.shp with the expression
ID+5
as shown in figure_attributes_1 .
12.5.2 Filter features
At the bottom of the attribute table, you have a dropdown list of different filter:
Show All Features;
Show Selected Features;
Show Features visible on map;
Show Edited and New Features;
Field Filter;
Advanced filter (Expression);
The first four are self explanatory, the two last are expression filters. Field Filter allows user to choose a column
name in the list and add a simple form to the right of the drop-down list to filter with a like expression parameter.
This filter will create an expression filter as an Advanced filter. The last kind of filter will open an expression
window, see Expresiones for more information.
12.5.3 Tab/form mode
By default the attribute window displays a table layout. In some case one should prefer to use a form layout to
help edit some features more easily.
You can switch to form layout by clicking in the bottom right, on and switch back to table layout with .

12.5.4 Acercamiento a objeto espacial
To zoom into a feature, without having to select it, right-click on the feature you want to zoom in, within the
attribute table, and select Zoom to feature.
12.5.5 Guardar objetos espaciales seleccionados como nueva capa
The selected features can be saved as any OGR-supported vector format and also transformed into another coordi-
nate reference system (CRS). Just open the right mouse menu of the layer and click on Save as to define the name
of the output file, its format and CRS (see section Panel de Capas). To save the selection ensure that the Save
only selected features is selected. It is also possible to specify OGR creation options within the dialog.
12.5.6 Pegar en nueva capa
Features that are on the clipboard may be pasted into a new layer. To do this, first make a layer editable. Select
some features, copy them to the clipboard, and then paste them into a new layer using Edit Paste Features as
and choosing New vector layer or New memory layer.
This applies to features selected and copied within QGIS and also to features from another source defined using
well-known text (WKT).
12.5.7 Editando valores de atributo
Field Calculator
The button in the attribute table allows you to perform calculations on the basis of existing
attribute values or defined functions, for instance, to calculate length or area of geometry features. The results can
be written to a new attribute field, a virtual field, or they can be used to update values in an existing field.
A virtual field is a field based on an expression calculated on the fly, meaning that its value is automatically updated
as soon as the underlying parameter changes. The expression is set once; you no longer need to recalculate the
field each time underlying values change. For example, you may want to use a virtual field if you need area to
be evaluated as you digitize features or to automatically calculate a duration between dates that may change (e.g.,
using now() function).
Nota: Uso de Campos Virtuales

Virtual fields are not permanent in the layer attributes, meaning that theyre only saved and available in the
project file theyve been created.
Un campo puede definirse como virtual slo al momento de su creacin y la expresin usado no puede
cambiarse luego: necesitar borrar y recrear el campo.
The field calculator is available on any layer that supports edit. When you click on the field calculator icon the
dialog opens (see figure_attributes_2). If the layer is not in edit mode, a warning is displayed and using the field
calculator will cause the layer to be put in edit mode before the calculation is made.
The quick field calculation bar on top of the attribute table is only visible if the layer is in edit mode.
In quick field calculation bar, you first select the existing field name then open the expression dialog to create your
expression or write it directly in the field then click on [Update All], [Update Selected] or [Update Filtered]
button according to your need.
Calculadora de Campo
Based on the Expression Builder dialog, the field calculator dialog offers a complete interface to define an expres-
sion and apply it to an existing or a newly created field. To use the field calculator dialog, you first must select
whether you want to only update selected features, create a new attribute field where the results of the calculation
will be added or update an existing field.

Figure 12.61: Calculadora de Campo

If you choose to add a new field, you need to enter a field name, a field type (integer, real or string), the total field
width, and the field precision (see figure_attributes_2). For example, if you choose a field width of 10 and a field
precision of 3, it means you have 6 digits before the dot, then the dot and another 3 digits for the precision.
A short example illustrates how field calculator works when using the Expression tab. We want to calculate the
length in km of the railroads layer from the QGIS sample dataset:

1. Load the shapefile railroads.shp in QGIS and press .
Toggle editing mode Field Calculator

2. Click on and open the dialog.
3. Select the Create a new field checkbox to save the calculations into a new field.
4. Add length as Output field name and real as Output field type, and define Output field width to be 10
and Precision, 3.
5. Now double click on function $length in the Geometry group to add it into the Field calculator expression
box.
6. Complete the expression by typing / 1000 in the Field calculator expression box and click [Ok].
7. Ahora puede encontrar un nuevo campo length en la tabla de atributos.
12.5.8 Trabajar con tablas de atributos no espaciales
QGIS allows you also to load non-spatial tables. This currently includes tables supported by OGR and delimited
text, as well as the PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle provider. The tables can be used for field lookups or just
generally browsed and edited using the table view. When you load the table, you will see it in the legend field. It
can be opened with the tool and is then editable like any other layer attribute table.
As an example, you can use columns of the non-spatial table to define attribute values, or a range of values that are
allowed, to be added to a specific vector layer during digitizing. Have a closer look at the edit widget in section
Men de Campos to find out more.
12.5.9 Formateo condicional de Celdas de Tablas
You can enable the conditional formatting panel clicking on at the top right of the attributes window in table
view (not available in form view).
The new panel allows user to add new rules for conditional formatting of field or full row in regard of the expression
on field. Adding new rule open a form to define:
el nombre de la regla,
una condicin de la ventana de expresin,
un formateo preestablecido
algunos otros parmetros para mejorar, cambiar o definir el formateo:
colores de fondo y texto,
uso de cono,
bold, italic underline, or strikeout,
campo texto,
tipo de letra.

Figure 12.62: Formateo Condicional de una tabla de atributos
12.5.10 Creando relaciones uno a muchos
Relations are a technique often used in databases. The concept is, that features (rows) of different layers (tables)
can belong to each other.
As an example you have a layer with all regions of alaska (polygon) which provides some attributes about its name
and region type and a unique id (which acts as primary key).
Llaves forneas
Then you get another point layer or table with information about airports that are located in the regions and you
also want to keep track of these. If you want to add them to the region layer, you need to create a one to many
relation using foreign keys, because there are several airports in most regions.
Figure 12.63: Regin Alaska con aeropuertos
In addition to the already existing attributes in the airports attribute table another field fk_region which acts as a
foreign key (if you have a database, you will probably want to define a constraint on it).

This field fk_region will always contain an id of a region. It can be seen like a pointer to the region it belongs
to. And you can design a custom edit form for the editing and QGIS takes care about the setup. It works with
different providers (so you can also use it with shape and csv files) and all you have to do is to tell QGIS the
relations between your tables.
Capas
QGIS makes no difference between a table and a vector layer. Basically, a vector layer is a table with a geometry.
So can add your table as a vector layer. To demonstrate you can load the region shapefile (with geometries) and
the airport csv table (without geometries) and a foreign key (fk_region) to the layer region. This means, that
each airport belongs to exactly one region while each region can have any number of airports (a typical one to
many relation).
Definicin (Administrador de Relacin)
The first thing we are going to do is to let QGIS know about the relations between the layer. This is done in Project
Project Properties. Open the Relations menu and click on Add.
name is going to be used as a title. It should be a human readable string, describing, what the relation is
used for. We will just call say Airports in this case.
referencing layer is the one with the foreign key field on it. In our case this is the airports layer
referencing field will say, which field points to the other layer so this is fk_region in this case
referenced layer is the one with the primary key, pointed to, so here it is the regions layer
referenced field is the primary key of the referenced layer so it is ID
id will be used for internal purposes and has to be unique. You may need it to build custom forms once this
is supported. If you leave it empty, one will be generated for you but you can assign one yourself to get one
that is easier to handle.
Figure 12.64: Administrador de Relaciones

Formularios
Now that QGIS knows about the relation, it will be used to improve the forms it generates. As we did not change
the default form method (autogenerated) it will just add a new widget in our form. So lets select the layer region
in the legend and use the identify tool. Depending on your settings, the form might open directly or you will have
to choose to open it in the identification dialog under actions.
Figure 12.65: Identification dialog regions with relation to airports
As you can see, the airports assigned to this particular region are all shown in a table. And there are also some
buttons available. Lets review them shortly
The button is for toggling the edit mode. Be aware that it toggles the edit mode of the airport layer,
although we are in the feature form of a feature from the region layer. But the table is representing features
of the airport layer.
The button will add a new feature to the airport layer. And it will assign the new airport to the current
region by default.
The button will delete the selected airport permanently.
The symbol will open a new dialog where you can select any existing airport which will then be assigned
to the current region. This may be handy if you created the airport on the wrong region by accident.
The symbol will unlink the selected airport from the current region, leaving them unassigned (the
foreign key is set to NULL) effectively.
The two buttons to the right switch between table view and form view where the later lets you view all the
airports in their respective form.
If you work on the airport table, a new widget type is available which lets you embed the feature form of the
referenced region on the feature form of the airports. It can be used when you open the layer properties of the
airports table, switch to the Fields menu and change the widget type of the foreign key field fk_region to Relation
Reference.
If you look at the feature dialog now, you will see, that the form of the region is embedded inside the airports form
and will even have a combobox, which allows you to assign the current airport to another region.

Figure 12.66: Identification dialog airport with relation to regions
12.6 Editar
QGIS supports various capabilities for editing OGR, SpatiaLite, PostGIS, MSSQL Spatial and Oracle Spatial
vector layers and tables.
Nota: El procedimiento para edicin de capas GRASS es diferente - vea la seccin Digitalizar y editar una capa
vectorial GRASS para ms detalles.
Truco: Las ediciones simultneas

This version of QGIS does not track if somebody else is editing the same feature at the same time as you are. The
last person to save its edits wins.
12.6.1 Configurar la tolerancia del autoensamblado y radio de bsqueda
For an optimal and accurate edit of the vector layer geometries, we need to set an appropriate value of snapping
tolerance and search radius for features vertices.
Tolerancia de autoensamblado
Snapping tolerance is the distance QGIS uses to search for the closest vertex and/or segment you are trying to
connect to when you set a new vertex or move an existing vertex. If you arent within the snapping tolerance,
QGIS will leave the vertex where you release the mouse button, instead of snapping it to an existing vertex and/or
segment. The snapping tolerance setting affects all tools that work with tolerance.
1. A general, project-wide snapping tolerance can be defined by choosing Settings Options..., Digitizing
tab. You can select between To vertex, To segment or To vertex and segment as default snap mode.
You can also define a default snapping tolerance and a search radius for vertex edits. The tolerance can be
set either in map units or in pixels. The advantage of choosing pixels is that the snapping tolerance doesnt
have to be changed after zoom operations. In our small digitizing project (working with the Alaska dataset),
we define the snapping units in feet. Your results may vary, but something on the order of 300 ft at a scale
of 1:10000 should be a reasonable setting.
2. A layer-based snapping tolerance that overrides the global snapping options can be defined by choosing
Settings Snapping options. It enables and adjusts snapping mode and tolerance on a layer basis (see
figure_edit_1 ). This dialog offers three different modes to select the layer(s) to snap to:
Current layer: only the active layer is used, a convenient way to ensure topology within the layer being
edited
All layers: a quick and simple setting for all visible layers in the project so that the pointer snaps to all
vertices and/or segments. In most cases it is sufficient to use this snapping mode.
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Advanced: if you need to edit a layer and snap its vertices to another layer, ensure the target layer
is checked and increase the snapping tolerance to a greater value. Furthermore, snapping will never
occur to a layer that is not checked in the snapping options dialog, regardless of the global snapping
tolerance. So be sure to mark the checkbox for those layers that you need to snap to.
Figure 12.67: Editar opciones de autoensamblado en base a una capa (modo Avanzado)
Truco: Control the list of layers to snap

The Snapping Options dialog is by default populated with parameters (mode, tolerance, units) set in the global
Digitizing tab. To avoid layers being checked by default in the Advanced mode and hence set snappable, define
the Default Snap mode to Off.
Snapping tolerance can be set in pixels or map units (the units of the map view). While in the Advanced
layer selection mode, it is possible to use a snapping tolerance that refers to layer units, the units of the
reprojected layer when on-the-fly CRS transformation is on.
Radio de bsqueda
Search radius is the distance QGIS uses to search for the closest vertex you are trying to select when you click
on the map. If you arent within the search radius, QGIS wont find and select any vertex for editing. Snap
tolerance and search radius are set in map units or pixels, so you may find you need to experiment to get them set
right. If you specify too big of a tolerance, QGIS may snap to the wrong vertex, especially if you are dealing with
a large number of vertices in close proximity. Set search radius too small, and it wont find anything to move.
The search radius for vertex edits in layer units can be defined in the Digitizing tab under Settings Options.
This is the same place where you define the general, project-wide snapping tolerance.
12.6.2 Edicin topolgica
Besides layer-based snapping options, you can also define topological functionalities in the Snapping options...
dialog in the Settings (or File) menu. Here, you can define Enable topological editing, and/or for polygon
layers, activate the Avoid Intersections option.
Habilitar edicin topolgica
The option Enable topological editing is for editing and maintaining common boundaries in features mosaics.
QGIS detects shared boundary by the features, so you only have to move a common vertex/segment once, and
QGIS will take care of updating the neighboring features.

Evitar intersecciones de nuevos polgonos
A second topological option called Avoid intersections prevents you to draw new features that overlap an
existing one. It is for quicker digitizing of adjacent polygons. If you already have one polygon, it is possible
with this option to digitize the second one such that both intersect, and QGIS then cuts the second polygon to
the boundary of the existing one. The advantage is that you dont have to digitize all vertices of the common
boundary.
Nota: If the new geometry is totally covered by existing ones, it gets cleared and the new feature will have no
geometry when allowed by the provider, otherwise saving modifications will make QGIS pop-up an error message.
Advertencia: Use cautiously the Avoid Intersections option

Because the option cuts or clears geometry of any overlaping feature from any polygon layer, do not forget to
uncheck this option once you no longer need it otherwise, you can get unexpected geometries.
Habilitar autoensamblado en intersecciones
Otra opcin es utilizar Habilitar autoensamblado en interseccin. Le permitir que se ajuste a una interseccin
de las capas de fondo, incluso si no hay ningn vrtice en la interseccin.
Comprobador de Geometra
A core plugin can help the user to find the geometry invalidity. You can find more information on this plugin at
Complemento Comprobador de geometra.
12.6.3 Digitalizando una capa existente
By default, QGIS loads layers read-only. This is a safeguard to avoid accidentally editing a layer if there is a
slip of the mouse. However, you can choose to edit any layer as long as the data provider supports it, and the
underlying data source is writable (i.e., its files are not read-only).
In general, tools for editing vector layers are divided into a digitizing and an advanced digitiz-
ing toolbar, described in section Digitalizacin avanzada. You can select and unselect both under
View Toolbars . Using the basic digitizing tools, you can perform the following functions:
Icono Propsito Icono Propsito
Ediciones actuales Conmutar edicin
Adicionar Caracterstica: Capturar Punto Add Feature: Capture Line
Add Feature: Capture Polygon Mover objeto espacial
Agregar Cadena Circular Add Circular String By Radius
Herramienta de nodos Borrar lo seleccionado
Cortar objetos espaciales Copiar objetos espaciales
Pegar objetos espaciales Guardar cambios de la capa
Edicin de tabla: Barra de herramientas de edicin bsica de capa vectorial
Note that while using any of the digitizing tools, you can still zoom or pan in the map canvas without losing the
focus on the tool.
Toggle editing
All editing sessions start by choosing the option found in the context menu of a given layer, from
the attribute table dialog, the digitizing toolbar or the Edit menu.
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Once the layer is in edit mode, additional tool buttons on the editing toolbar will become available and markers
will appear at the vertices of all features unless Show markers only for selected features option under Settings
Options... Digitizing menu is checked.
Truco: Guardar regularmente

Save Layer Edits
Remember to regularly. This will also check that your data source can accept all the changes.
Aadir objetos espaciales
Add Feature Add Feature Add Feature

You can use the , or icons on the toolbar to add new feature (point, line
and polygon) into the current layer.
Add circular string Add circular string by radius

The next buttons or allow users to add line or polygon features with a
circular geometry.
To create features with these tools, you first digitize the geometry then enter its attributes. To digitize the geometry,
left-click on the map area to create the first point of your new feature.
For linear or curved geometries, keep on left-clicking for each additional point you wish to capture or use au-
tomatic tracing capability to accelerate the digitization. You can switch back and forth between linear Add fea-
ture tool and curved Add circular string... tools to create compound curved geometry. Pressing Delete or
Backspace key reverts the last node you add. When you have finished adding points, right-click anywhere on
the map area to confirm you have finished entering the geometry of that feature.
Nota: Curved geometries are stored as such only in compatible data provider
Although QGIS allows to digitize curved geometries within any editable data format, you need to be using a data
provider (e.g. PostGIS, GML or WFS) that supports curves to have features stored as curved, otherwise QGIS
segmentizes the circular arcs. The memory layer provider also supports curves.
Truco: Customize the digitizing rubber band

While capturing polygon, the by-default red rubber band can hide underlying features or places youd like to
capture a point. This can be fixed by setting a lower opacity (or alpha channel) to the rubber bands Fill Color in
Settings Options Digitizing menu. You can also avoid the use of the rubber band by checking Dont update
rubber band during node editing.
The attribute window will appear, allowing you to enter the information for the new feature. Figure_edit_2 shows
setting attributes for a fictitious new river in Alaska. However, in the Digitizing menu under the Settings
Options menu, you can also activate:
Suppress attributes pop-up windows after each created feature to avoid the form opening
or Reuse last entered attribute values to have fields automatically filled at the opening of the form and
just have to type changing values.
Move Feature(s)
With the icon on the toolbar, you can move existing features.
Herramienta de nodos
For shapefile-based or MapInfo layers as well as SpatiaLite, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MSSQL Spatial, and Oracle
Node Tool
Spatial tables, the provides manipulation capabilities of feature vertices similar to CAD programs. It
is possible to simply select multiple vertices at once and to move, add or delete them altogether. The node tool
also works with on the fly projection turned on and supports the topological editing feature. This tool is, unlike
other tools in QGIS, persistent, so when some operation is done, selection stays active for this feature and tool.

Figure 12.68: Enter Attribute Values Dialog after digitizing a new vector feature
It is important to set the property Settings Options Digitizing Search Radius: to a number
greater than zero. Otherwise, QGIS will not be able to tell which vertex is being edited and will display a warning.
Truco: Marcadores vrtices

The current version of QGIS supports three kinds of vertex markers: Semi-transparent circle, Cross and None.
To change the marker style, choose Options from the Settings menu, click on the Digitizing tab and select the
appropriate entry.
Operaciones bsicas
Node Tool
Start by activating the and selecting a feature by clicking on it. Red boxes will appear at each vertex
of this feature.
Selecting vertices: You can select vertices by clicking on them one at a time, by clicking on an edge to
select the vertices at both ends, or by clicking and dragging a rectangle around some vertices. When a
vertex is selected, its color changes to blue. To add more vertices to the current selection, hold down the
Ctrl key while clicking. Hold down Ctrl when clicking to toggle the selection state of vertices (vertices
that are currently unselected will be selected as usual, but also vertices that are already selected will become
unselected).
Aadir vrtices: Para aadir un vrtice, slo haga doble clic cerca de un borde y un nuevo vrtice aparecer
en el borde cerca del cursor. Tome en cuenta que el vrtice aparecer en el borde, no el la posicin del cursor;
por lo tanto se debe mover si es necesario.
Deleting vertices: Select the vertices and click the Delete key. Deleting all the vertices of a feature
generates, if compatible with the datasource, a geometryless feature. Note that this doesnt delete the
Delete Selected
complete feature, just the geometry part; To delete a complete feature use the tool.
Moving vertices: Select all the vertices you want to move, click on a selected vertex or edge and drag in the
direction you wish to move. All the selected vertices will move together. If snapping is enabled, the whole
selection can jump to the nearest vertex or line.
Each change made with the node tool is stored as a separate entry in the Undo dialog. Remember that all operations
support topological editing when this is turned on. On-the-fly projection is also supported, and the node tool
provides tooltips to identify a vertex by hovering the pointer over it.
Truco: Move features with precision

Node Tool
The Move Feature tool doesnt currently allow to snap features while moving. Using the , select
ALL the vertices of the feature, click a vertex, drag and snap it to a target vertex: the whole feature is moved and
snapped to the other feature.
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El Editor de Vrtice
With activating the Node Tool on a feature, QGIS opens the Vertex Editor panel listing all the vertices of the
feature with their x, y (z, m if applicable) coordinates and r (for the radius, in case of circular geometry). Simply
select a row in the table does select the corresponding vertex in the map canvas, and vice versa. Simply change
a coordinate in the table and your vertex position is updated. You can also select multiple rows and delete them
altogether.
Figure 12.69: Vertex editor panel showing selected nodes
Cortar, copiar, y pegar objetos espaciales
Selected features can be cut, copied and pasted between layers in the same QGIS project, as long as destination
Toggle editing
layers are set to beforehand.
Truco: Transform polygon into line and vice-versa using copy/paste

Copy a line feature and paste it in a polygon layer: QGIS pastes in the target layer a polygon whose boundary
corresponds to the closed geometry of the line feature. This is a quick way to generate different geometries of the
same data.
Features can also be pasted to external applications as text. That is, the features are represented in CSV format,
with the geometry data appearing in the OGC Well-Known Text (WKT) format. WKT features from outside QGIS
can also be pasted to a layer within QGIS.
When would the copy and paste function come in handy? Well, it turns out that you can edit more than one layer
at a time and copy/paste features between layers. Why would we want to do this? Say we need to do some work
on a new layer but only need one or two lakes, not the 5,000 on our big_lakes layer. We can create a new layer
and use copy/paste to plop the needed lakes into it.
Como un ejemplo, copiaremos algunos lagos a una nueva capa:
1. Cargar la capa desde donde desee copiar (capa fuente)
2. Cargar o crear la capa a la que desee copiar (capa destino)
3. Comenzar a editar la capa destino
4. Hacer la capa de fuente activa haciendo clic sobre ella en la leyenda

5. Use the tool to select the feature(s) on the source layer
Copy Features
6. Click on the tool

7. Hacer la capa de destino activa haciendo clic en la leyenda.
Paste Features
8. Click on the tool
9. Detener edicin y guardar los cambios
What happens if the source and target layers have different schemas (field names and types are not the same)?
QGIS populates what matches and ignores the rest. If you dont care about the attributes being copied to the target
layer, it doesnt matter how you design the fields and data types. If you want to make sure everything - the feature
and its attributes - gets copied, make sure the schemas match.
Nota: Congruencia del pegado de objetos espaciales

If your source and destination layers use the same projection, then the pasted features will have geometry identical
to the source layer. However, if the destination layer is a different projection, then QGIS cannot guarantee the ge-
ometry is identical. This is simply because there are small rounding-off errors involved when converting between
projections.
Truco: Copiar atributos de texto en otro

If you have created a new column in your attribute table with type string and want to paste values from another
attribute column that has a greater length the length of the column size will be extended to the same amount. This
is because the GDAL Shapefile driver starting with GDAL/OGR 1.10 knows to auto-extend string and integer
fields to dynamically accommodate for the length of the data to be inserted.
Borrar objetos espaciales seleccionados
If we want to delete an entire feature (attribute and geometry), we can do that by first selecting the geometry using
the regular tool. Selection can also be done from the attribute table. Once you
Delete Selected
have the selection set, press Delete or Backspace key or use the tool to delete the features.
Multiple selected features can be deleted at once.
Cut Features
The tool on the digitizing toolbar can also be used to delete features. This effectively deletes the
feature but also places it on a spatial clipboard. So, we cut the feature to delete. We could then use the
Paste Features
tool to put it back, giving us a one-level undo capability. Cut, copy, and paste work on the currently
selected features, meaning we can operate on more than one at a time.
Guardar capas editadas
When a layer is in editing mode, any changes remain in the memory of QGIS. Therefore, they are not commit-
ted/saved immediately to the data source or disk. If you want to save edits to the current layer but want to continue
Save Layer Edits
editing without leaving the editing mode, you can click the button. When you turn editing mode
Toggle editing
off with (or quit QGIS for that matter), you are also asked if you want to save your changes or
discard them.
If the changes cannot be saved (e.g., disk full, or the attributes have values that are out of range), the QGIS
in-memory state is preserved. This allows you to adjust your edits and try again.
Truco: Integridad de datos

It is always a good idea to back up your data source before you start editing. While the authors of QGIS have
made every effort to preserve the integrity of your data, we offer no warranty in this regard.
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Saving multiple layers at once
This feature allows the digitization of multiple layers. Choose Save for Selected Layers to save all changes
you made in multiple layers. You also have the opportunity to Rollback for Selected Layers, so that the
digitization may be withdrawn for all selected layers. If you want to stop editing the selected layers, Cancel
for Selected Layer(s) is an easy way.
Las mismas funciones estn disponibles para editar todas las capas del proyecto.
12.6.4 Digitalizacin avanzada

Enable Advanced Digitizing Tools Habilitar Trazado
Deshacer Rehacer
Rotar objeto(s) espacial(es) Simplificar objeto espacial
Aadir anillo Aadir parte
Rellenar anillo Borrar anillo
Borrar parte Remodelar objetos espaciales

Desplazar curva Dividir objetos espaciales
Dividir partes Combinar objetos espaciales seleccionados
Combinar atributos de objetos espaciales seleccionados Rotar smbolos de puntos
Edicin avanzada de tabla: la barra de herramientas de edicin avanzada de capa vectorial
Deshacer y rehacer
Undo Redo
The and tools allows you to undo or redo vector editing operations. There is also a dockable
widget, which shows all operations in the undo/redo history (see Figure_edit_4). This widget is not displayed by
default; it can be displayed by right clicking on the toolbar and activating the Undo/Redo checkbox. Undo/Redo
is however active, even if the widget is not displayed.
Figure 12.70: Rehacer y deshacer pasos digitalizados
When Undo is hit or Ctrl+z (or Cmd+z) pressed, the state of all features and attributes are reverted to the
state before the reverted operation happened. Changes other than normal vector editing operations (for example,
changes done by a plugin) may or may not be reverted, depending on how the changes were performed.

Utilizar el widget de historial de deshacer/rehacer, slo haga clic para seleccionar la operacin en la lista del
histrico. Todos los objetos espaciales se revertirn al estado que tenan despus de la operacin de seleccionada.
Rotar objeto(s) espacial(es)
Rotate Feature(s) Rotate Feature(s)

Use to rotate one or multiple features in the map canvas. Press the icon and
then click on the feature to rotate. Either click on the map to place the rotated feature or enter an angle in the user
input widget. If you want to rotate several features, they shall be selected first.
Si se habilita la herramienta del mapa con objeto(s) seleccionados, su (ellos) centroide aparecer y ser el punto
de delimitacin de rotacin. Si se desea mover el punto de delimitacin, mantenga el botn Ctrl y haga clic en
el mapa para colocarlo.
Si se mantiene Shift antes de hacer clic en el mapa, la rotacin se har en pasos de 45 grados, que pueden ser
modificados despus en el widget de entrada del usuario.
Rotate Feature(s)
To abort feature rotation, you need to click on icon.
Simplificar objeto espacial
Simplify Feature
The tool allows you to reduce the number of vertices of a feature, as long as the geometry
remains valid. With the tool you can also simplify many features at once or multi-part features.
First, click on the feature or drag a rectangle over the features. A dialog where you can define a tolerance in map
units, layer units or pixels pops up and a colored and simplified copy of the feature(s), using the given
tolerance, appears over them. QGIS calculates the amount of vertices that can be deleted while maintaining the
geometry. The higher the tolerance is the more vertices can be deleted. When the expected geometry fits your
needs just click the [OK] button. The tolerance you used will be saved when leaving a project or when leaving an
edit session. So you can go back to the same tolerance the next time when simplifying a feature.
Simplify Feature
To abort feature simplification, you need to click on icon.
Nota: unlike the feature simplification option in Settings Options Rendering menu which simplifies the
Simplify Feature
geometry just for rendering, the tool really modifies features geometry in data source.
Aadir parte
Add Part
You can to a selected feature generating a multipoint, multiline or multipolygon feature. The new part
must be digitized outside the existing one which should be selected beforehand.
Add Part
The can also be used to add a geometry to a geometryless feature. First, select the feature in the
attribute table and digitize the new geometry with the Add Part tool.
Borrar parte
Delete Part
The tool allows you to delete parts from multifeatures (e.g., to delete polygons from a multi-polygon
feature). This tool works with all multi-part geometries: point, line and polygon. Furthermore, it can be used to
totally remove the geometric component of a feature. To delete a part, simply click within the target part.
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Aadir anillo
Add Ring
You can create ring polygons using the icon in the toolbar. This means that inside an existing area, it
is possible to digitize further polygons that will occur as a hole, so only the area between the boundaries of the
outer and inner polygons remains as a ring polygon.
Rellenar anillo
Fill Ring
You can use the function to add a ring to a polygon and add a new feature to the layer at the same time.
Using this tool, you simply have to digitize a polygon within an existing one. Thus you need not first use the
Add Ring Add feature
icon and then the function anymore.
Borrar anillo
Delete Ring
The tool allows you to delete rings within an existing polygon, by clicking inside the hole. This
tool only works with polygon and multi-polygon features. It doesnt change anything when it is used on the outer
ring of the polygon.
Remodelar objetos espaciales
Reshape Features
You can reshape line and polygon features using the icon on the toolbar. It replaces the line or
polygon part from the first to the last intersection with the original line. With polygons, this can sometimes lead
to unintended results. It is mainly useful to replace smaller parts of a polygon, not for major overhauls, and the
reshape line is not allowed to cross several polygon rings, as this would generate an invalid polygon.
Por ejemplo, se puede editar el limite de un polgono con esta herramienta. En primer lugar, haga clic en la zona
interior del polgono junto al punto en el que desea aadir un nuevo vrtice. A continuacin, cruce el limite y aada
los vrtices fuera del polgono. Para finalizar, haga clic derecho en la zona interior del polgono. La herramienta
aadir automticamente un nodo en la nueva lnea que cruza el limite. Tambin es posible eliminar parte de la
zona del polgono, a partir de la nueva lnea fuera del polgono, agregar vrtices en el interior, y poner fin a la lnea
exterior del polgono con un clic derecho.
Nota: La herramienta de remodelar podra alterar la posicin inicial de un anillo de polgono o una linea cerrada.
Por lo tanto, el punto que est representado dos veces no ser ms el mismo. Esto puede no ser un problema
para la mayora de las aplicaciones, pero es algo a considerar.
Desplazar curva
Offset Curve
The tool creates parallel shifts of line layers. The tool can be applied to the edited layer (the
geometries are modified) or also to background layers (in which case it creates copies of the lines / rings and adds
them to the edited layer). It is thus ideally suited for the creation of distance line layers. The User Input dialog
pops-up, showing the displacement distance.
Offset Curve
To create a shift of a line layer, you must first go into editing mode and activate the tool. Then click
on a feature to shift it. Move the mouse and click where wanted or enter the desired distance in the user input
Save Layer Edits
widget. Your changes may then be saved with the tool.
QGIS options dialog (Digitizing tab then Curve offset tools section) allows you to configure some parameters
like Join style, Quadrant segments, Miter limit.

Dividir objetos espaciales
Split Features
You can split features using the icon on the toolbar. Just draw a line across the feature you want to
split.
Dividir partes
In QGIS it is possible to split the parts of a multi part feature so that the number of parts is increased. Just draw a
Split Parts
line across the part you want to split using the icon.
Combinar objetos espaciales seleccionados
Merge Selected Features

The tool allows you to merge features. A new dialog will allow you to choose which value
to choose between each selected features or select a function (Minimum, Maximum, Median, Sum, Skip Attribute)
to use for each column. If features dont have a common boundaries, a multipolygon will be created.
Combinar atributos de objetos espaciales
Merge Attributes of Selected Features

The tool allows you to apply same attributes to features without merging their
Merge Attributes of Selected Features
boundaries. First, select several features. Then press the button. Now QGIS asks
you which attributes are to be applied to all selected objects. As a result, all selected objects have the same attribute
entries.
Rotar smbolos de puntos
Rotate Point Symbols

allows you to change the rotation of point symbols in the map canvas. You must first define
a rotation column from the attribute table of the point layer in the Advanced menu of the Style menu of the Layer
Properties. Also, you will need to go into the SVG marker and choose Data defined properties .... Activate
Angle and choose rotation as field. Without these settings, the tool is inactive.
Figure 12.71: Rotar smbolos de puntos
To change the rotation, select a point feature in the map canvas and rotate it, holding the left mouse button pressed.
A red arrow with the rotation value will be visualized (see Figure_edit_5). When you release the left mouse button
again, the value will be updated in the attribute table.
Nota: Si se mantiene presionada la tecla Ctrl, la rotacin se realiza en pasos de 15 grados.
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Rastreo Automtico
Usually, when using capturing map tools (add feature, add part, add ring, reshape and split), you need to click
each vertex of the feature.
Tracing
Using the automatic tracing mode you can speed up the digitization process. Enable the tool by pushing
the icon or pressing t key and snap to a vertex or segment of a feature you want to trace along. Move the mouse
over another vertex or segment youd like to snap and instead of an usual straight line, the digitizing rubber band
represents a path from the last point you snapped to the current position. QGIS actually uses the underlying
features topology to build the shortest path between the two points. Click and QGIS places the intermediate
vertices following the path. You no longer need to manually place all the vertices during digitization.
Tracing requires snapping to be activated in traceable layers to build the path. You should also snap to an existing
vertex or segment while digitizing and ensure that the two nodes are topologically connectable following existing
features, otherwise QGIS is unable to connect them and thus traces a single straight line.
Nota: Adjust map scale or snapping settings for an optimal tracing

If there are too many features in map display, tracing is disabled to avoid potentially long tracing structure prepa-
ration and large memory overhead. After zooming in or disabling some layers the tracing is enabled again.
Truco: Quickly enable or disable automatic tracing by pressing t key

By pressing t key, tracing can be enabled/disabled anytime even while digitizing one feature, so it is possible to
digitize some parts of the feature with tracing enabled and other parts with tracing disabled. Tools behave as usual
when tracing is disabled.
12.6.5 El panel de Digitalizacin Avanzada
When capturing new geometries or geometry parts you also have the possibility to use the Advanced Digitizing
panel. You can digitize lines exactly parallel or at a specific angle or lock lines to specific angles. Furthermore
you can enter coordinates directly so that you can make a precise definition for your new geometry.
Figure 12.72: El panel de Digitalizacin Avanzada
Nota: Las herramientas no estn habilitadas si la vista del mapa esta en coordenadas geogrficas.
12.6.6 Crear nueva capa vectorial
QGIS le permite crear nuevas capas de archivo shape, SpatiaLite, GPX y Nuevas Capas de borrador temporal.
La creacin de una nueva capa GRASS esta implementada dentro del complemento GRASS. Por favor refierase
a la seccin Crear una nueva capa vectorial GRASS para obtener ms informacin sobre la creacin de capas
vectoriales GRASS.

Crear una nueva capa de archivo shape
To create a new shape layer for editing, choose New New Shapefile Layer... from the Layer menu. The
New Vector Layer dialog will be displayed as shown in Figure_edit_6. Choose the type of layer (point, line or
polygon) and the CRS (coordinate reference system).
Note that QGIS does not yet support creation of 2.5D features (i.e., features with X,Y,Z coordinates).
Figure 12.73: Dilogo Crear un nuevo archivo Shape
To complete the creation of the new shapefile layer, add the desired attributes by clicking on the [Add to attributes
list] button and specifying a name and type for the attribute. A first id column is added as default but can be
removed, if not wanted. Only Type: real , Type: integer , Type: string and Type:date
attributes are supported. Additionally and according to the attribute type, you can also define the width and
precision of the new attribute column. Once you are happy with the attributes, click [OK] and provide a name for
the shapefile. QGIS will automatically add a .shp extension to the name you specify. Once the layer has been
created, it will be added to the map, and you can edit it in the same way as described in section Digitalizando una
capa existente above.
Crear una nueva capa SpatiaLite
To create a new SpatiaLite layer for editing, choose New New SpatiaLite Layer... from the Layer menu.
The New SpatiaLite Layer dialog will be displayed as shown in Figure_edit_7.
The first step is to select an existing SpatiaLite database or to create a new SpatiaLite database. This can be done
with the browse button to the right of the database field. Then, add a name for the new layer, define the
layer type, and specify the coordinate reference system with [Specify CRS]. If desired, you can select Create
an autoincrementing primary key.
To define an attribute table for the new SpatiaLite layer, add the names of the attribute columns you want to create
with the corresponding column type, and click on the [Add to attribute list] button. Once you are happy with the
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Figure 12.74: Creating a New SpatiaLite layer Dialog

attributes, click [OK]. QGIS will automatically add the new layer to the legend, and you can edit it in the same
way as described in section Digitalizando una capa existente above.
Adems de la gestin de capas SpatiaLite se puede hacer con la DBManager. Ver Complemento administrador de
BBDD.
Crear una nueva capa GPX
To create a new GPX file, you need to load the GPS plugin first. Plugins Plugin Manager... opens the
Plugin Manager Dialog. Activate the GPS Tools checkbox.
When this plugin is loaded, choose New Create new GPX Layer... from the Layer menu. In the Save new
GPX file as dialog, you can choose where to save the new GPX layer.
Crear una nueva capa temporal
Empty, editable memory layers can be defined using Layer Create Layer New Temporary Scratch Layer.
Here you can even create Multipoint, Multiline and Multipolygon Layers beneath Point, Line and
Polygon Layers. Temporary Scratch Layers are not saved and will be discarded when QGIS is closed. See also
Pegar en nueva capa.
12.7 Capa virtual
A special kind of vector layer allows you to define a layer as the result of an advanced query, using the SQL
language on any number of other vector layers that QGIS is able to open. These layers are called virtual layers:
they do not carry data by themselves and can be seen as views to other layers.
12.7.1 Crear una capa virtual
Open the virtual layer creation dialog by clicking on Add Virtual Layer in the Layer menu or from the correspond-
ing toolbar.
The dialog allows you to specify an SQL query. The query can use the name (or id) of existing vector layers as
well as field names of these layers.
For example, if you have a layer called regions, you can create a new virtual layer with an SQL query like
SELECT * FROM regions WHERE id < 100. The SQL query will be executed, whatever the underlying
provider of the regions layer is and even if this provider does not directly support SQL queries.
Joins and complex queries can also be created simply by directly using the names of the layers that are to be
joined.
12.7.2 Supported language
The underlying engine uses SQLite and Spatialite to operate.

It means you can use all of the SQL your local installation of SQLite understands.
Functions from SQLite and spatial functions from Spatialite can also be used in a virtual layer query. For in-
stance, creating a point layer out of a attribute-only layer can be done with a query similar to: SELECT id,
MakePoint(x, y, 4326) as geometry FROM coordinates
Functions of QGIS expressions can also be used in a virtual layer query.
To refer the geometry column of a layer, use the name geometry.
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Contrary to a pure SQL query, all the fields of a virtual layer query must be named. Dont forget to use the as
keyword to name your columns if they are the result of a computation or function call.
12.7.3 Problemas de Rendimiento
With default parameters set, the virtual layer engine will try its best to detect the type of the different columns of
the query, including the type of the geometry column if one is present.
This is done by introspecting the query when possible or by fetching the first row of the query (LIMIT 1) at last
resort. Fetching the first row of the result just to create the layer may be undesirable for performance reasons.
The creation dialog allows to specify different parameters:
unique identifier column: this option allows to specify which field of the query represents unique inte-
ger values that QGIS can use as row identifiers. By default, an autoincrementing integer value is used.
Specifying a unique identifier column allows to speed up selection of rows by id.
no geometry: this option forces the virtual layer to ignore any geometry field. The resulting layer is an
attribute-only layer.
geometry column: this option allows to specify the name of the column that is to be used as the geometry
of the layer.
geometry type: this option allows to specify the type of the geometry of the virtual layer.
geometry CRS: this option allows to specify the coordinate reference system of the virtual layer.
12.7.4 Special comments
The virtual layer engine tries to determine the type of each column of the query. If it fails, the first row of the
query is fetched to determine column types.
The type of a particular column can be specified directly in the query by using some special comments.
The syntax is the following: /*:type*/. It has to be placed just after the name of a column. type can be either
int for integers, real for floating point numbers or text.
For instance: SELECT id+1 as nid /*:int*/ FROM table
The type and coordinate reference system of the geometry column can also be set thanks to special comments
with the following syntax /*:gtype:srid*/ where gtype is the geometry type (point, linestring,
polygon, multipoint, multilinestring or multipolygon) and srid an integer representing the
EPSG code of a coordinate reference system.
12.7.5 Use of indexes
When requesting a layer through a virtual layer, indexes of this source layer will be used in the following ways:
if an = predicate is used on the primary key column of the layer, the underlying data provider will be asked
for a particular id (FilterFid)
for any other predicates (>, <=, !=, etc.) or on a column without primary key, a request built from an
expression will be used to request the underlying vector data provider. It means indexes may be used on
database providers if they exist.
A specific syntax exists to handle spatial predicates in requests and trigger the use of a spa-
tial index: a hidden column named _search_frame_ exists for each virtual layer. This col-
umn can be compared for equality to a bounding box. Example: select * from vtab where
_search_frame_=BuildMbr(-2.10,49.38,-1.3,49.99,4326)
Spatial binary predicates like ST_Intersects are greatly sped up when used in conjunction with this spatial
index syntax.

CHAPTER 13
Trabajar con catos raster
13.1 Trabajar con Datos Raster
This section describes how to visualize and set raster layer properties. QGIS uses the GDAL library to read and
write raster data formats, including ArcInfo Binary Grid, ArcInfo ASCII Grid, GeoTIFF, ERDAS IMAGINE, and
many more. GRASS raster support is supplied by a native QGIS data provider plugin. The raster data can also be
loaded in read mode from zip and gzip archives into QGIS.
As of the date of this document, more than 100 raster formats are supported by the GDAL library
(see GDAL-SOFTWARE-SUITE in Referencias bibliogrficas y web). A complete list is available at
http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html.
Nota: Not all of the listed formats may work in QGIS for various reasons. For example, some require external
commercial libraries, or the GDAL installation of your OS may not have been built to support the format you want
to use. Only those formats that have been well tested will appear in the list of file types when loading a raster into
QGIS. Other untested formats can be loaded by selecting the [GDAL] All files (*) filter.
Working with GRASS raster data is described in section Integracion GRASS SIG.
13.1.1 Qu son los datos raster?
Raster data in GIS are matrices of discrete cells that represent features on, above or below the earths surface. Each
cell in the raster grid is the same size, and cells are usually rectangular (in QGIS they will always be rectangular).
Typical raster datasets include remote sensing data, such as aerial photography, or satellite imagery and modelled
data, such as an elevation matrix.
Unlike vector data, raster data typically do not have an associated database record for each cell. They are geocoded
by pixel resolution and the x/y coordinate of a corner pixel of the raster layer. This allows QGIS to position the
data correctly in the map canvas.
QGIS makes use of georeference information inside the raster layer (e.g., GeoTiff) or in an appropriate world file
to properly display the data.
13.1.2 Loading raster data in QGIS
Add Raster Layer

Raster layers are loaded either by clicking on the icon or by selecting the Layer Add
Raster Layer menu option. More than one layer can be loaded at the same time by holding down the Ctrl or
Shift key and clicking on multiple items in the Open a GDAL Supported Raster Data Source dialog.
Once a raster layer is loaded in the map legend, you can click on the layer name with the right mouse button to
select and activate layer-specific features or to open a dialog to set raster properties for the layer.
El men del boton derecho del raton para capas rster
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Zoom to Layer Extent

Zum a la mejor escala (100%)
Stretch Using Current Extend
Mostrar en la vista general
Remove
Duplicate
Establecer SRC de la capa
Set Project CRS from Layer
Save as ...
Propiedades
Rename
Copiar estilo
Aadir grupo nuevo
Expandir todo
Comprimir todo
Update Drawing Order
13.2 Dialogo de Propiedades Raster
To view and set the properties for a raster layer, double click on the layer name in the map legend, or right click on
the layer name and choose Properties from the context menu. This will open the Raster Layer Properties dialog
(see figure_raster_1).
There are several menus in the dialog:
General
Estilo
Transparencia
Pyramids
Histogram
Metadata
13.2.1 Men General
Informacin de la capa
The General menu displays basic information about the selected raster, including the layer source path, the display
name in the legend (which can be modified), and the number of columns, rows and no-data values of the raster.
Sistema de referencia de coordenadas
Here, you find the coordinate reference system (CRS) information printed as a PROJ.4 string. If this setting is not
correct, it can be modified by clicking the [Specify] button.
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Figure 13.1: Dialogo de Propiedades Capas Rster
visibilidad Dependiente de la Escala
Additionally scale-dependent visibility can be set in this tab. You will need to check the checkbox and set an
appropriate scale where your data will be displayed in the map canvas.
Abajo, puede ver una vista miniatura de la capa, su smbolo leyenda, y la paleta.
13.2.2 Estilo de Menu
Band rendering
QGIS offers four different Render types. The renderer chosen is dependent on the data type.
1. Multiband color - if the file comes as a multiband with several bands (e.g., used with a satellite image with
several bands)
2. Paletted - if a single band file comes with an indexed palette (e.g., used with a digital topographic map)
3. Singleband gray - (one band of) the image will be rendered as gray; QGIS will choose this renderer if the
file has neither multibands nor an indexed palette nor a continuous palette (e.g., used with a shaded relief
map)
4. Singleband pseudocolor - this renderer is possible for files with a continuous palette, or color map (e.g.,
used with an elevation map)
Multiband color
With the multiband color renderer, three selected bands from the image will be rendered, each band representing
the red, green or blue component that will be used to create a color image. You can choose several Contrast
enhancement methods: No enhancement, Stretch to MinMax, Stretch and clip to MinMax and Clip to min
max.
This selection offers you a wide range of options to modify the appearance of your raster layer. First of all, you
have to get the data range from your image. This can be done by choosing the Extent and pressing [Load]. QGIS
can Estimate (faster) the Min and Max values of the bands or use the Actual (slower) Accuracy.
Now you can scale the colors with the help of the Load min/max values section. A lot of images have a few very
low and high data. These outliers can be eliminated using the Cumulative count cut setting. The standard data
range is set from 2% to 98% of the data values and can be adapted manually. With this setting, the gray character
of the image can disappear. With the scaling option Min/max, QGIS creates a color table with all of the data
included in the original image (e.g., QGIS creates a color table with 256 values, given the fact that you have 8
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Figure 13.2: Raster Renderer - Multiband color

bit bands). You can also calculate your color table using the Mean +/- standard deviation x . Then,
only the values within the standard deviation or within multiple standard deviations are considered for the color
table. This is useful when you have one or two cells with abnormally high values in a raster grid that are having a
negative impact on the rendering of the raster.
All calculations can also be made for the Current extent.
Truco: Viewing a Single Band of a Multiband Raster

If you want to view a single band of a multiband image (for example, Red), you might think you would set the
Green and Blue bands to Not Set. But this is not the correct way. To display the Red band, set the image type to
Singleband gray, then select Red as the band to use for Gray.
Paletted
This is the standard render option for singleband files that already include a color table, where each pixel value
is assigned to a certain color. In that case, the palette is rendered automatically. If you want to change colors
assigned to certain values, just double-click on the color and the Select color dialog appears. Also, in QGIS its
possible to assign a label to the color values. The label appears in the legend of the raster layer then.
Figure 13.3: Raster Renderer - Paletted
Contrast enhancement
Nota: When adding GRASS rasters, the option Contrast enhancement will always be set automatically to stretch
to min max, regardless of if this is set to another value in the QGIS general options.
Singleband gray
This renderer allows you to render a single band layer with a Color gradient: Black to white or White to black.
You can define a Min and a Max value by choosing the Extent first and then pressing [Load]. QGIS can

Estimate (faster) the Min and Max values of the bands or use the Actual (slower) Accuracy.
Figure 13.4: Raster Renderer - Singleband gray
With the Load min/max values section, scaling of the color table is possible. Outliers can be eliminated using the
Cumulative count cut setting. The standard data range is set from 2% to 98% of the data values and can be
adapted manually. With this setting, the gray character of the image can disappear. Further settings can be made
with Min/max and Mean +/- standard deviation x . While the first one creates a color table with
all of the data included in the original image, the second creates a color table that only considers values within
the standard deviation or within multiple standard deviations. This is useful when you have one or two cells with
abnormally high values in a raster grid that are having a negative impact on the rendering of the raster.
Singleband pseudocolor
This is a render option for single-band files, including a continuous palette. You can also create individual color
maps for the single bands here. Three types of color interpolation are available:
1. Discrete
2. Linear
3. Exact
Add values manually
In the left block, the button adds a value to the individual color table. The button
Remove selected row Sort colormap items
deletes a value from the individual color table, and the button sorts the color
table according to the pixel values in the value column. Double clicking on the value column lets you insert a
specific value. Double clicking on the color column opens the dialog Change color, where you can select a color
to apply on that value. Further, you can also add labels for each color, but this value wont be displayed when you
Load color map from band
use the identify feature tool. You can also click on the button , which tries to load the table
Load color map from file Export color map to file
from the band (if it has any). And you can use the buttons or to load
an existing color table or to save the defined color table for other sessions.
In the right block, Generate new color map allows you to create newly categorized color maps. For the Classi-
fication mode Equal interval, you only need to select the number of classes and press the button
Classify. You can invert the colors of the color map by clicking the Invert checkbox. In the case of the Mode
Continous, QGIS creates classes automatically depending on the Min and Max. Defining Min/Max values
can be done with the help of the Load min/max values section. A lot of images have a few very low and high data.
These outliers can be eliminated using the Cumulative count cut setting. The standard data range is set from

Figure 13.5: Raster Renderer - Singleband pseudocolor

2% to 98% of the data values and can be adapted manually. With this setting, the gray character of the image can
disappear. With the scaling option Min/max, QGIS creates a color table with all of the data included in the
original image (e.g., QGIS creates a color table with 256 values, given the fact that you have 8 bit bands). You can
also calculate your color table using the Mean +/- standard deviation x . Then, only the values within
the standard deviation or within multiple standard deviations are considered for the color table.
Color rendering
For every Band rendering, a Color rendering is possible.

You can also achieve special rendering effects for your raster file(s) using one of the blending modes (see El
Dialogo de las Propiedades del Vector).
Further settings can be made in modifying the Brightness, the Saturation and the Contrast. You can also use a
Grayscale option, where you can choose between By lightness, By luminosity and By average. For one hue
in the color table, you can modify the Strength.
Remuestreo
The Resampling option makes its appearance when you zoom in and out of an image. Resampling modes can
optimize the appearance of the map. They calculate a new gray value matrix through a geometric transformation.
Figure 13.6: Representacin Rster - Remuestreo
When applying the Nearest neighbour method, the map can have a pixelated structure when zooming in. This
appearance can be improved by using the Bilinear or Cubic method, which cause sharp features to be blurred.
The effect is a smoother image. This method can be applied, for instance, to digital topographic raster maps.
13.2.3 Transparency Menu
QGIS has the ability to display each raster layer at a different transparency level. Use the transparency slider
to indicate to what extent the underlying layers (if any) should be visible though the current
raster layer. This is very useful if you like to overlay more than one raster layer (e.g., a shaded relief map overlayed
by a classified raster map). This will make the look of the map more three dimensional.
Additionally, you can enter a raster value that should be treated as NODATA in the Additional no data value menu.
An even more flexible way to customize the transparency can be done in the Custom transparency options section.
The transparency of every pixel can be set here.
As an example, we want to set the water of our example raster file landcover.tif to a transparency of 20%.
The following steps are necessary:

1. Load the raster file landcover.tif.

2. Open the Properties dialog by double-clicking on the raster name in the legend, or by right-clicking and
choosing Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Select the Transparency menu.
4. From the Transparency band menu, choose None.
Add values manually

5. Click the button. A new row will appear in the pixel list.
6. Enter the raster value in the From and To column (we use 0 here), and adjust the transparency to 20%.
7. Press the [Apply] button and have a look at the map.
You can repeat steps 5 and 6 to adjust more values with custom transparency.
As you can see, it is quite easy to set custom transparency, but it can be quite a lot of work. Therefore, you
Export to file Import from file
can use the button to save your transparency list to a file. The button loads your
transparency settings and applies them to the current raster layer.
13.2.4 Pyramids Menu
Large resolution raster layers can slow navigation in QGIS. By creating lower resolution copies of the data (pyra-
mids), performance can be considerably improved, as QGIS selects the most suitable resolution to use depending
on the level of zoom.
You must have write access in the directory where the original data is stored to build pyramids.
Several resampling methods can be used to calculate the pyramids:
Nearest Neighbour
Promedio
Gauss
Cbico
Modo
Ninguno
If you choose Internal (if possible) from the Overview format menu, QGIS tries to build pyramids internally.
You can also choose External and External (Erdas Imagine).
Please note that building pyramids may alter the original data file, and once created they cannot be removed. If
you wish to preserve a non-pyramided version of your raster, make a backup copy prior to building pyramids.
13.2.5 Men Histograma
The Histogram menu allows you to view the distribution of the bands or colors in your raster. The histogram is
generated automatically when you open the Histogram menu. All existing bands will be displayed together. You
can save the histogram as an image with the button. With the Visibility option in the Prefs/Actions menu,
you can display histograms of the individual bands. You will need to select the option Show selected band.
The Min/max options allow you to Always show min/max markers, to Zoom to min/max and to Update style
to min/max. With the Actions option, you can Reset and Recompute histogram after you have chosen the
Min/max options.

Figure 13.7: El Men Pirmides
Figure 13.8: Histograma de Rster

13.2.6 Men Metadatos
The Metadata menu displays a wealth of information about the raster layer, including statistics about each band in
the current raster layer. From this menu, entries may be made for the Description, Attribution, MetadataUrl and
Properties. In Properties, statistics are gathered on a need to know basis, so it may well be that a given layers
statistics have not yet been collected.
Figure 13.9: Metadatos Rster
13.3 Anlisis raster
13.3.1 Calculadora Rster
La Calculadora rster en el men Rster le permite realizar clculos en base a los valores de pxel de un rster ex-
istente (ver figure_raster_10). Los resultados se escriben en una nueva capa rster con formato GDAL-compatible.
The Raster bands list contains all loaded raster layers that can be used. To add a raster to the raster calculator
expression field, double click its name in the Fields list. You can then use the operators to construct calculation
expressions, or you can just type them into the box.
In the Result layer section, you will need to define an output layer. You can then define the extent of the calculation
area based on an input raster layer, or based on X,Y coordinates and on columns and rows, to set the resolution of
the output layer. If the input layer has a different resolution, the values will be resampled with the nearest neighbor
algorithm.
The Operators section contains all available operators. To add an operator to the raster calculator expression box,
click the appropriate button. Mathematical calculations (+, -, *, ... ) and trigonometric functions (sin, cos,
tan, ... ) are available. Stay tuned for more operators to come!
With the Add result to project checkbox, the result layer will automatically be added to the legend area and
can be visualized.
Examples
Convert elevation values from meters to feet
13.3. Anlisis raster 187

Figure 13.10: Calculadora Rster

Creating an elevation raster in feet from a raster in meters, you need to use the conversion factor for meters to feet:
3.28. The expression is:
"elevation@1" * 3.28
Using a mask
If you want to mask out parts of a raster say, for instance, because you are only interested in elevations above 0
meters you can use the following expression to create a mask and apply the result to a raster in one step.
("elevation@1" >= 0) * "elevation@1"
In other words, for every cell greater than or equal to 0, set its value to 1. Otherwise set it to 0. This creates the
mask on the fly.
If you want to classify a raster say, for instance into two elevation classes, you can use the following expression
to create a raster with two values 1 and 2 in one step.
("elevation@1" < 50) * 1 + ("elevation@1" >= 50) * 2
In other words, for every cell less than 50 set its value to 1. For every cell greater than or equal 50 set its value to
2.
13.3.2 Raster Alignment
This tool is able to take several rasters as input and to align them perfectly, that means:
reproject to the same CRS,
resample to the same cell size and offset in the grid,
clip to a region of interest,
rescale values when required.
All rasters will be saved in another files.
Add new raster
First, open the tools from Raster Align Raster... and click on the button to choose one existing
raster in QGIS. Select an output file to save the raster after the alignment, the resampling method and if the tools
Edit file settings Remove an existing file
need to Rescale values according to the cell size. You can and from the list.
Then in the main Align raster window, you can choose one or more options:
Select the Reference Layer,
Transform into a new CRS,
Setup a different Cell size,
Setup a different Grid Offset,
Clip to Extent,
Output Size,
Add aligned raster to the map canvas.
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CHAPTER 14
Trabajar con datos OGC
14.1 QGIS como Cliente de Datos OGC
El Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) es una organizacin internacional con miembros de ms de 300 organi-
zaciones comerciales, gubernamentales, sin fines de lucro y de investigacin de todo el mundo. Sus miembros
desarrollan e implementan estndares para contenido geoespacial y servicios, procesamiento de datos SIG y el
intercambio.
Al describir un modelo de datos bsico para las caractersticas geogrficas, un nmero cada vez mayor de las es-
pecificaciones son desarrollados por OGC para atender las necesidades especficas de ubicacin interoperable y la
tecnologa geoespacial, incluyendo SIG. Ms informacin se puede encontrar en http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
Importar especificaciones OGC implementadas por QGIS:
WMS Web Map Service (Cliente WMS/WMTS)
WMTS Web Map Tile Service (Cliente WMS/WMTS)
WFS Web Feature Service (Cliente WFS y WFS-T)
WFS-T Web Feature Service - Transactional (Cliente WFS y WFS-T)
WCS Web Coverage Service (WCT Cliente)
SFS Simple Features for SQL (Capas PostGIS)
GML Lenguaje de Marcado Generalizado
Los servicios de QGIS esta incrementando el uso para intercambiar datos geoespaciales entre diferentes imple-
mentaciones GIS y almacenes de datos. QGIS puede hacer frente a las especificaciones anteriores como un cliente,
siendo SFS (a travs del apoyo del proveedor PostgreSQL / PostGIS, vea la seccin Capas PostGIS).
14.1.1 Cliente WMS/WMTS
Informacin general de la implementacin WMS
Actualmente QGIS puede actual como un cliente WMS que entiende servidores WMS 1.1, 1.1.1 y 1.3. En partic-
ular, se ha probado contra los servidores de acceso pblico como DEMIS.
Un servidor WMS acta sobre las peticiones por parte del cliente (por ejemplo, QGIS) para un mapa rster con
una extensin dada, el conjunto de capas, el estilo de simbolizacin y la transparencia. El servidor WMS despus
consulta sus fuentes de datos locales, rsteriza el mapa y lo enva de vuelta al cliente en formato rster. Para QGIS,
este formato sera tpicamente JPEG o PNG.
WMS es genricamente un servicio REST (Representational State Transfer) en lugar de un servicio Web en toda
regla. Como tal, puede tomar las URLs generadas por QGIS y utilizarlos en el navegador web para recuperar las
mismas imgenes que QGIS utiliza internamente. Esto puede ser til para la solucin de problemas, ya que hay
varias marcas de servidores WMS en el mercado y ellos tienen su propia interpretacin de la estndar WMS.
191
Las capas WMS se pueden aadir sencillamente, siempre que conozca la URL para acceder al servidor WMS, si
tiene una conexin til a ese servidor, y el servidor entiende HTTP como mecanismo de transporte de datos.
Adems, QGIS cachea sus respuestas WMS (por ejemplo, imgenes) durante 24 horas siempre que la peticin
GetCapabilities no se active. La peticin GetCapabilities se activa cada vez que el botn [Conectar] en el dilogo
[Aadir capa(s) del servidor WMS(T)S] se utiliza para recuperar las capacidades del servidor WMS. Esta es
una caracterstica automtica la intencin de optimizar el tiempo de carga del proyecto. si un proyecto se guarda
con una capa WMS, los tiles WMS correspondientes se cargarn del cache la siguiente vez que el proyecto se abra
mientras que no sea mayor a 26h.
Informacin general de la implementacin WMTS
QGIS tambin puede actuar como un cliente WMTS. WMTS es un estndar OGC para distribuir tiles de conjunto
de datos geoespaciales. Este es una manera ms rpida y ms eficiente de distribuir datos que WMS porque con
WMTS, el conjunto de tile es pregenerado y el cliente slo solicita la transmisin de los tiles, no su produccin.
Una peticin WMS implica tpicamente ambos la generacin y la transmisin de los datos. Un ejemplo bien
conocido de un estndar no OGC para la visualizacin de datos geoespaciales de tiles es Google Maps.
Para mostrar los datos en una variedad de escalas cercanas a lo que el usuario podra querer, los conjuntos de
teselas WMTS se producen en varios niveles de escala diferentes y estn disponibles para el cliente SIG para
pedirlos.
Este diagrama ejemplifica el concepto de conjunto de teselas:
Figure 14.1: Concepto de conjunto de teselas WMTS
Los dos tipos de interfaz WMTS que QGIS reconoce son a travs de Key-Value-Pairs (KVP) y RESTful. Estas
dos interfaces son diferentes y es necesario especificarlos a QGIS diferente.
1. Con el fin de acceder a un servicio WMTS KVP, un usuario QGIS debe abrir la interfaz WMS/WMTS y
aadir la siguiente cadena a la URL del servicio tile WMTS:
"?SERVICE=WMTS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities"
Un ejemplo de este tipo de direccin es

http://opencache.statkart.no/gatekeeper/gk/gk.open_wmts?\
service=WMTS&request=GetCapabilities
Para probar la capa topo2 en este WMTS funciona muy bien. Aadir esta cadena indica que un servicio
web WMTS se va a utilizar en lugar de un servicio WMS.
2. EL servicio RESTful WMTS toma una forma diferente, una URL sencilla. EL formato recomendado por
OGC es:
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{WMTSBaseURL}/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml
Este formato le ayuda a reconocer que es una direccin RESTful. Un WMTS RESTful se ac-
cede en QGIS simplemente aadiendo su direccin en la configuracin del WMS en el campo de la
URL del formulario. Un ejemplo de este tipo de direccin para un caso de mapa base austriaco es
http://maps.wien.gv.at/basemap/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml.
Nota: Se pueden encontrar aun algunos viejos servicios llamados WMS-C. Estos servicios son simi-
lares a WMTS (por ejemplo, el mismo propsito pero trabajando un poco diferente). Se pueden admin-
istrar igual que se hace con los servicios WMTS. Slo aada ?tiled=true al final de la url. Vea
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification para mayor informacin acerca de esta especificacin.
Cuando se lee WMTS, a menudo se puede pensar en WMS-C tambin.
Seleccionar servidor WMS/WMTS
La primera ves que utiliza la caracterstica WMS en QGIS, no hay servidores definidos.
Aadir capa WMS

Comience haciendo clic en el botn en la barra de herramientas, o seleccionando Capa
Aadir capa WMS....
El dilogo Aadir capa(s) desde un servidor para aadir capas que aparezcan en el servidor WMS. Se
pueden agregar algunas capas para jugar haciendo clic en el botn [Aadir servidores predetermina-
dos]. Este aadir dos servidores demo WMS para usar: los servidores WMS de DM Solutions Group y
Lizardtech. Para definir un nuevo servidor WMS en la pestaa Capas, seleccionar el botn [Nuevo]. A con-
tinuacin introduzca los parmetros para conectarse a su servidor deseado, como se indica en table_OGC_1:
Nombre Un nombre para esta conexin. Este nombre se utilizar en la lista desplegable de
conexiones a servidor as que se puede distinguir de otros servidores WMS.
URL La URL del servidor provee los datos. Este debe ser un nombre de host soluble el
mismo formato que usara para abrir una conexin telnet o ping a un host.
Nombre de Nombre de usuario para acceder a un servidor asegurado de WMS. Este parmetro es
usuario opcional.
Contrasea Contrasea para una autentificacin bsica al servidor WMS. Este parmetro es opcional
Ignorar URI Ignorar URI GetMap reportada en las capacidades. Utilice un URI dado del campo
GetMap URL anterior.
Ignorar la URI Ignorar la URI GetFeatureInfo reportada en las capacidades. Utilice un URI dado
GetFeatureInfo del campo URL anterior.
Tabla OGC 1: Parmetros de conexin WMS
Si necesita configurar un servidor proxy para poder recibir servicios WMS de internet, puede aadir su servidor
proxy en las opciones. Elija Configuracin Opciones y haga clic en la pestaa Red. Ah, puede aadir su
configuracin de proxy y habilitarlos al ajustar Usar proxy para acceso web. Compruebe que selecciono el
tipo de proxy correcto del men desplegable Tipo de proxy .
Una vez que la nueva conexin al servidor WMS ha sido creada, ser preservado para futuras sesiones.
Truco: En las direcciones URL del servidor WMS

Asegrese, al introducir la URL del servidor WMS, que tiene solo la base URL. Por ejemplo, no debe tener
fragmentos como request=GetCapabilities o version=1.0.0 en su URL.
Advertencia: Escriba nombre de usuario y contrasea en la pestaa Autentificacin mantendr credenciales

sin proteger en la configuracin de conexin. Esas credenciales sern visibles si, por ejemplo comparte el
archivo del proyecto con alguien. Por lo tanto es aconsejable guardar sus credenciales en una Configuracin
de autentificacin en lugar (pestaa de configuraciones). Vea ref:authentication_index para mayor detalle.
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Cargando capas WMS/WMTS
Una vez que haya llenado exitosamente en sus parmetros, puede utilizar el botn [Conectar] para recuperar
las capacidades del servidor seleccionado. Esto incluye la codificacin de la imagen, capas, estilos de capa y
proyecciones. Como es una operacin de la red, la velocidad de respuesta depende de la calidad de la conexin de
red al servidor WMS. Mientras descarga los datos desde el servidor WMS, el proceso de descarga se visualizara
en la parte inferior izquierda del dialogo WMS.
Su pantalla debe ahora lucir un poco como figure_OGR_1, que muestra la respuesta proporcionada por el servidor
WMS del European Soil Portal.
Figure 14.2: El dilogo para aadir un servidor WMS, muestra las capas disponibles
Codificacin de la Imagen
La seccin Codificacin de la imagen lista los formatos que reconoce por ambos el cliente y el servidor. Elija uno
dependiendo de sus requerimientos de precisin de imagen.
Truco: Codificacin de la Imagen

Normalmente, encontrar que un servidor WMS le ofrece la opcin de codificacin de la imagen en JPEG o PNG.
JPEG es un formato de compresin con prdida, mientras que PNG reproduce fielmente los datos crudos raster.
Utilizar JPEG si se espera que los datos WMS sean de naturaleza fotogrfica y/o no le importa cierta perdida de
calidad de la imagen. Esta disyuntiva tpicamente reduce en cinco veces la necesidad de transferencia de datos en
comparacin con PNG.
Utilice PNG si desea representaciones precisas de los datos originales y no le importa el incremento de los requi-
sitos de transferencia de datos.

Opciones
La zona Opciones del dilogo provee un campo de texto donde se puede aadir un Nombre de capa para la capa
WMS. Este nombre aparecer en la leyenda despus de cargar la capa.
Debajo del nombre de la capa, se puede definir Tamao de la tesela, si desea establecer tamaos de tesela (por
ejemplo, 256x256) para dividir la peticin WMS en mltiples peticiones.
El Lmite del objeto espacial para GetFeatureInfo define los objetos espaciales del servidor a consultar.
Si se selecciona un WMS de la lista, aparece un campo con la proyeccin predeterminada proporcionada por el
servidor de mapas. Si el botn [Cambiar...] est activo, puede hacer clic en l y cambiar la proyeccin por defecto
de los WMS a otro SRC proporcionado por el servidor WMS.
Finalmente puede activar Utiliza leyenda-WMS contextual si el servidor WMS admite este objeto. Entonces
slo la leyenda relevante para su actual extensin de vista de mapa se mostrar y as no incluir los elementos de
la leyenda por cosas que no puede ver en el mapa actual.
Orden de la capa
La pestaa Orden de Capas lista las capas seleccionadas disponibles de la conexin actual al servidor WMS.
Puede notar que algunas capas son ampliables; esto significa que la capa se puede visualizar en una seleccin de
estilos de imagen.
Se puede seleccionar varias capas a la vez, pero solo una imagen de estilo por capa. Cuando varias capas son
seleccionadas, estas se combinarn en el servidor WMS y se transmitirn a QGIS una sola vez.
Truco: Ordenar capas WMS

Las capas WMS representadas por un servidor son sobrepuestas en el orden listado en la seccin de Capas, desde
la parte superior a la parte inferior de la lista. Si se desea cambiar el orden de la superposicin, se puede usar la
pestaa Orden de capas.
Transparencia
En esta versin de QGIS, la configuracin Transferencia global de Propiedades de la capa esta codificado para
estar siempre en donde este disponible.
Truco: Transparencia de capa WMS

La disponibilidad de imagen WMS transparente depende de la codificacin de la imagen utilizada: PNG y GIF
reconoce la transparencia, mientras JPEG deja sin reconocerlo.
Sistema de referencia de coordenadas

Un sistema de referencia de coordenadas (SRC) es la terminologa para una proyeccin QGIS.
Cada capa WMS se puede representar en mltiples SRCs, dependiendo de la capacidad del servidor WMS.
Para elegir un SRC, seleccione [Cambiar...] y un cuadro de dilogo similar a Figure Projection 3 en Trabajar con
Proyecciones aparecer. La principal diferencia con la versin WMS del dilogo es que slo aquellos SRCs son
reconocidos por el servidor WMS se le mostrarn.
Busqueda del servidor
Dentro de QGIS, puede buscar servidores WMs. Figure_OGC_2 muestra la pestaa guilabel:Bsqueda de servidor
con el dilogo Aadir capa(s) de un servidor.
Como puede ver, es posible ingresar una cadena de bsqueda en el campo de texto y golpear el botn [Bsqueda].
Despus de un rato, el resultado de la bsqueda se completa automticamente en la lista debajo del campo de
texto. Examine la lista de resultados e inspeccione sus resultados dentro de la tabla. Para visualizar los resultados,
seleccione una entrada de la tabla y pulse el botn [Aadir fila seleccionada a la lista WMS] y cambie de
nuevo a la pestaa Capas. QGIS ha actualizado automticamente su lista de servidores y el resultado de bsqueda

Figure 14.3: Dilogo de bsqueda de servidores WMS despus de algunas palabras clave
seleccionado ya esta activada en la lista de servidores WMS guardada en la pestaa Capas. Slo tiene que solicitar
la lista de capas haciendo clic en el botn [Conectar]. Esta opcin es muy til cuando se desea buscar mapas por
palabras clave especificas.
Bsicamente, esta opcin es una interfaz del API de http://geopole.org.
Conjunto de teselas
Al utilizar servicios WMTS (Cached WMS) como

http://opencache.statkart.no/gatekeeper/gk/gk.open_wmts?\
service=WMTS&request=GetCapabilities
Sea capaz de navegar a travs de la pestaa :guilabel: Conjunto de teselas propuesta por el servidor. La in-
formacin adicional como el tamao de la tesela, formatos y SRC compatibles se enumeran en esta tabla. En
combinacin con esta caracterstica, puede usar el control deslizante de escala de tesela seleccionando Configu-
racin -> Paneles (KDE) o Ver -> Paneles (Gnome, Windows y MacOSX), a continuacin elija Escala de tesela.
Esto le da las escalas disponibles desde el servidor de tesela con un buen slider atracado.
Utilizar la herramienta de Identificar objetos espaciales
Una vez que haya aadido un servidor WMS, y si alguna capa de un servidor WMS es consultable, puede entonces
Identificar objetos espaciales
utilizar la herramienta para seleccionar un pxel del lienzo del mapa. Una consulta se
hace al servidor WMS por cada seleccin realizada. El resultado de la consulta es regresada en texto plano. El
formato de este texto es dependiente del servidor WMS particular utilizado. Seleccin de Formato
Si mltiples formatos de salida son reconocidos por el servidor, una lista desplegable con formatos admitidos se
aade automticamente al dilogo de resultados identificados y el formato seleccionada puede ser almacenado en
el proyecto para la capa. Usar formato GML

Identificar
La herramienta reconoce la respuesta del servidor WMS (GetFeatureInfo) en formato GML (se llama
Objeto espacial en la GUI de QGIS en este contexto). Si el formato Objeto espacial es admitido por el servidor y
seleccionado, los resultados de la herramienta de identificador son objetos vectoriales, como de una capa vectorial
regular. Cuando un objeto espacial es seleccionado en el rbol, este resalta en el mapa y se puede copiar a la
papelera y pegar a otra capa vectorial. Vea el ejemplo de configuracin de UMN Mapserver abajo que admite
GetFeatureInfo en formato GML.
# in layer METADATA add which fields should be included and define geometry (example):
"gml_include_items" "all"
"ows_geometries" "mygeom"
"ows_mygeom_type" "polygon"
# Then there are two possibilities/formats available, see a) and b):
# a) basic (output is generated by Mapserver and does not contain XSD)

# in WEB METADATA define formats (example):
"wms_getfeatureinfo_formatlist" "application/vnd.ogc.gml,text/html"
# b) using OGR (output is generated by OGR, it is send as multipart and contains XSD)
# in MAP define OUTPUTFORMAT (example):
OUTPUTFORMAT
NAME "OGRGML"
MIMETYPE "ogr/gml"
DRIVER "OGR/GML"
FORMATOPTION "FORM=multipart"
END
# in WEB METADATA define formats (example):

"wms_getfeatureinfo_formatlist" "OGRGML,text/html"
Ver propiedades
Una vez que haya aadido un servidor WMS, puede ver sus propiedades haciendo clic derecho sobre el mismo en
la leyenda y la seleccionar Propiedades. Pestaa de Metadatos
La pestaa Metadatos muestra una gran cantidad de informacin acerca del servidor WMS, generalmente obtenida
de la declaracin de capacidades de ese servidor. Muchas definiciones pueden ser extradas mediante la lectura
del estndar WMS (vea OPEN-GEOSPATIAL-CONSORTIUM en Referencias bibliogrficas y web), pero aqu
hay algunas definiciones tiles:
Propiedades del servidor
Versin WMS La versin WMS implementada por el servidor.
Formatos de Imagen La lista de MIME-types que el servidor puede responder con la elaboracin
del mapa. QGIS reconoce cualquier formato las bibliotecas Qt subyacentes con que fueron constru-
idas, que es tpicamente por lo menos image/png y image/jpeg.
Formato de Identificacin La lista de tipos MIME, el servidor puede responder, cuando utilice la
herramienta de Identificacin. Actualmente, QGIS reconoce el tipo texto plano.
Propiedades de la capa
Seleccionar Sea o no esta capa seleccionada cuando su servidor fue aadido a este proyecto.
Visible Si la capa seleccionada es o no visible en la leyenda (aun no utilizada en esta versin de
QGIS).
Poder Identificar Sea o no esta capa regresar algunos resultados cuando la herramienta de iden-
tificar se utilice en l.
Puede ser transparente Si esta capa puede ser representada o no con transparencia. Esta versin de
QGIS siempre usar transparencia si este es Si y la codificacin de la imagen admite la transparencia.

** Puede Acercar zum ** Si en esta capa se puede o no hacer zum en el servidor. Esta versin
de QGIS asume que todas las capas WMS tienen este conjunto de Si. Capas deficientes pueden ser
presentadas de manera extraa.
Conteo en Cascada Los servidores WMS pueden actuar como proxy para otros servidores WMS
para obtener datos rster de una capa. Esta entrada muestra el nmero de veces que se remiti la
solicitud de esta capa para ver a los servidores WMS para obtener un resultado.
Ancho fijo, altura fija Si esta capa o no tiene fijas las dimensiones en pxeles de origen. Esta
versin de QGIS asume que todas las capas WMS tienen este conjunto a nada. Capas deficientes
pueden ser presentadas de forma extraa.
Recuadro delimitador WGS 84 El recuadro delimitador de la capa, en coordenadas WGS 84.
Algunos servidores WMS no establecen esto correctamente (por ejemplo, utilizan coordenadas UTM
en su lugar). Si ste es el caso, entonces la vista inicial de la capa puede aparecer muy lejana
en QGIS. El webmaster de WMS debera ser informado de este error, que probablemente conocen
como los elementos XML de WMS LatLonBoundingBox, EX_GeographicBoundingBox o
el BoundingBox de CRS:84.
Disponible en SRC Las proyecciones que esta capa puede representar por el servidor WMS. stos
se enumeran en el formato nativo de WMS.
Disponible en estilo Los estilos de imagen que esta capa puede representar por el servidor WMS.
Mostrar leyenda grfica WMS en la tabla de contenido y diseador de impresin
El proveedor de datos WMS de QGIS es capaz de mostrar una leyenda grfica en la tabla de contenido de la
lista de capas y en el diseador de mapas. La leyenda WMS se muestra slo si el servidor WMS tiene capacidad
GetLegendGraphic y la capa tiene url de getCapability especificada, por lo que, adems, es necesario seleccionar
un estilo para la capa.
Si hay definida una legendGraphic, sta se mostrar debajo de la capa. Es pequea y hay que hacer clic sobre ella
para abrirla en tamao real (debido a una limitacin de la arquitectura de QgsLegendInterface). Al hacer clic en
la leyenda de la capa se abrir un cuadro con la leyenda a la mxima resolucin.
En el diseador de impresin, la leyenda se integrar en la dimensin original (descargada). La resolucin de la
grfica de la leyenda se puede configurar en las propiedades del elemento bajo Leyenda> LegendGraphic WMS
para que coincida con los requisitos de impresin
La leyenda mostrar informacin contextual basada en su escala actual. La leyenda WMS se muestra slo si el
servidor WMS tiene capacidad GetLegendGraphic y la capa tiene definida una url getCapability, para lo que se
debe seleccionar un estilo.
Limitaciones del cliente WMS
No es posible la funcionalidad de cliente WMS que se ha incluido en esta versin de QGIS. Algunas de las
excepciones ms notables siguen.
Editar la configuracin de la capa WMS
Aadir capa WMS

Una vez que haya completado el procedimiento de , no se podr cambiar la configuracin. Una
solucin alternativa es eliminar la capa por completo y empezar de nuevo.
**Autentificacin necesaria en servidores WMS **
Actualmente, se admiten servicios WMS pblicamente accesibles y garantizados. Los servidores WMS garantiza-
dos se puede acceder mediante autenticacin pblica. El usuario puede agregar las credenciales (opcional) cuando
agregue un servidor WMS. Vea la seccin :ref: ogc-wms-servers para ms detalles.
Truco: Acceso garantizado a capas OGC

Si necesita acceder a capas protegidas mediante mtodos seguros que no sean la autenticacin bsica, puede
utilizar InteProxy como un proxy transparente, lo que lo hace compatible con varios mtodos de autenticacin.
Puede encontrar ms informacin en el manual InteProxy en http://inteproxy.wald.intevation.org.
Truco: QGIS WMS Mapserver

Desde la versin 1.7.0, QGIS tiene su propia implementacin de un servidor de mapas WMS 1.3.0. Lea ms sobre
esto en el captulo QGIS como Servidor de Datos OGC.
14.1.2 WCT Cliente
Un Web Coverage Service (WCS) proporciona acceso a los datos rster en formas que son tiles para la
representacin del lado cliente, como datos de entrada en los modelos cientficos, y para otros clientes. El WCS
se puede comparar con la WFS y el WMS. Como WMS y WFS instancias de servicios, un WCS permite a los
clientes elegir partes de las explotaciones de informacin de un servidor basado en restricciones espaciales y otros
criterios de consulta.
QGIS tiene un proveedor WCS nativo y reconoce ambas versiones 1.0 y 1,1 (que son significativamente difer-
entes), pero actualmente se prefiere 1.0, porque 1.1 tiene muchos problemas (por ejemplo, cada servidor lo imple-
menta de diferente forma con varias particularidades).
El proveedor de WCS nativo se encarga de todas las solicitudes de red y utiliza las configuraciones de red estndar
de QGIS (especialmente de proxy). Tambin es posible seleccionar el modo de cach ( siempre cach, prefer-
entemente cach, preferentemente red, siempre red ). El proveedor tambin es compatible con la seleccin de
tiempo de la posicin, si el servidor ofrece el dominio temporal.

14.1.3 Cliente WFS y WFS-T
En QGIS, una capa WFS funciona prcticamente como cualquier otra capa vectorial. Puede identificar y se-
leccionar objetos espaciales, y ver la tabla de atributos. Desde QGIS 1.6, la edicin WFS-T est tambin de
reconocida.
En general, aadir una capa WFS es muy similar al procedimiento utilizado con WMS. La diferencia es que no
hay servidores por defecto definidos, as que tenemos que aadir la nuestra.
Cargar una capa WFS
Como un ejemplo, utilizamos el servidor WFS de DM Solutions y mostramos una capa. La URL es
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswfs_gmap
Aadir capa WFS

1. Haga clic en la herramienta en la barra de herramientas Capas. El dilogo Aadir capa
WFS de un servidor aparecera.
2. Haga clic en [Nuevo].
3. Ingrese DS Solutions como nombre.
4. Introducir la URL (vase ms arriba).
5. Haga clic en [Aceptar].
6. Seleccione DM Solutions de la lista desplegable Conexiones de servidor .

7. Haga clic en [Conectar]

8. Espere a que la capa de capas este poblada.

9. Seleccione la capa Parks en la lista.
10. Haga clic en [Aplicar] para aadir la capa al mapa.
Tenga en cuenta que cualquier configuracin de proxy que pueda haber establecido en sus preferencias tambin
son reconocidos.

Figure 14.4: Aadir una capa WFS
Se dar cuenta el progreso de la descarga, se visualiza en la parte inferior izquierda de la ventana principal de
QGIS. Una vez cargada la capa, se puede identificar y seleccionar una provincia o dos y ver la tabla de atributos.
Slo la versin 1.0.0 de WFS es compatible. Por ahora, no ha habido muchas pruebas contra versiones WFS
implementados en otros servidores de la CMA. Si tiene problemas con cualquier otro servidor WFS, por favor no
dude en ponerse en contacto con el equipo de desarrollo. Por favor, consulte la seccin :ref: label_helpsupport
para ms informacin sobre las listas de correo.
Truco: Encontrar servidores WFS

Puede encontrar servidores WFS adicionales al utilizar Google o su buscador favorito. Hay un nmero de listas
con URLs publicas, algunos son mantenidos y otros no.
14.2 QGIS como Servidor de Datos OGC
QGIS Server is an open source WMS 1.3, WFS 1.0.0 and WCS 1 1.1.1 implementation that, in addition, im-
plements advanced cartographic features for thematic mapping. The QGIS Server is a FastCGI/CGI (Common
Gateway Interface) application written in C++ that works together with a web server (e.g., Apache, Lighttpd).
It has Python plugin support allowing for fast and efficient development and deployment of new features. The
original development of QGIS Server was funded by the EU projects Orchestra, Sany and the city of Uster in
Switzerland.

QGIS Server uses QGIS as back end for the GIS logic and for map rendering. Furthermore, the Qt library is
used for graphics and for platform-independent C++ programming. In contrast to other WMS software, the QGIS
Server uses cartographic rules as a configuration language, both for the server configuration and for the user-
defined cartographic rules.
As QGIS desktop and QGIS Server use the same visualization libraries, the maps that are published on the web
look the same as in desktop GIS.
In the following sections, we will provide a sample configuration to set up a QGIS Server on Debian/Ubuntu
Linux. For user contributed installation instructions on other platforms or distributions, we recommend reading
one of the following URLs:
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/QGIS_Server_Tutorial
http://linfiniti.com/2010/08/qgis-mapserver-a-wms-server-for-the-masses/
http://www.itopen.it/qgis-server-python-plugins-ubuntu-setup/
14.2.1 QGIS Server installation on Debian/Ubuntu
At this point, we will give a short and simple sample installation how-to for a minimal working configuration using
Apache2 on Debian Squeeze (or with negligible variations on Ubuntu 14.04). Many other OSs provide packages
for QGIS Server, too. If you have to build it all from source, please refer to the URLs above.
Firstly, add the following debian GIS repository:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-gis.list
deb http://qgis.org/debian trusty main
deb-src http://qgis.org/debian trusty main
$ # Add keys
$ sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 3FF5FFCAD71472C4
$ sudo gpg --export --armor 3FF5FFCAD71472C4 | sudo apt-key add -
$ # Update package list

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Ahora, instale QGIS Server:

$ sudo apt-get install qgis-server python-qgis
La instalacin de un complemento de ejemplo HelloWorld para probar los servidores. Se puede crear un direc-
torio para mantener los complementos del servidor. Esto se especificar en la configuracin del host virtual y
transmitirlo al servidor a travs de una variable de entorno.
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/qgis-server/plugins
$ cd /opt/qgis-server/plugins
$ sudo wget https://github.com/elpaso/qgis-helloserver/archive/master.zip
$ # In case unzip was not installed before:
$ sudo apt-get install unzip
$ sudo unzip master.zip
$ sudo mv qgis-helloserver-master HelloServer
Instalar el servidor Apache en un host virtual separado que escuche en el puerto 80. Habilitar el mdulo de
reescritura de pasar encabezados HTTP BASIC de autenticacin:
$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ cat /etc/apache2/conf-available/qgis-server-port.conf
Listen 80
$ sudo a2enconf qgis-server-port
Esta es la configuracin del host virtual, almacenado en /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-qgis-server.conf

:
14.2. QGIS como Servidor de Datos OGC 201

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/qgis-server-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/qgis-server-access.log combined
# Longer timeout for WPS... default = 40

FcgidIOTimeout 120
FcgidInitialEnv LC_ALL "en_US.UTF-8"
FcgidInitialEnv PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
FcgidInitialEnv LANG "en_US.UTF-8"
FcgidInitialEnv QGIS_DEBUG 1
FcgidInitialEnv QGIS_SERVER_LOG_FILE /tmp/qgis-000.log
FcgidInitialEnv QGIS_SERVER_LOG_LEVEL 0
FcgidInitialEnv QGIS_PLUGINPATH "/opt/qgis-server/plugins"
# Needed for QGIS HelloServer plugin HTTP BASIC auth

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride All
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
# for apache2 > 2.4
Require all granted
#Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Ahora habilitar el host virtual y reiniciar Apache:

$ sudo a2ensite 001-qgis-server
$ sudo service apache2 restart
Probar el servidor con el complemento HelloWorld:

$ wget -q -O - "http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=HELLO"
HelloServer!
You can have a look at the default GetCapabilities of the QGIS server at:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabili
Truco: If you work with a feature that has many nodes then modifying and adding a new feature will fail. In this
case it is possible to insert the following code into the 001-qgis-server.conf file:
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
FcgidMaxRequestLen 26214400
FcgidConnectTimeout 60
</IfModule>
14.2.2 Creating a WMS/WFS/WCS server from a QGIS project
To provide a new QGIS Server WMS, WFS or WCS, we have to create a QGIS project file with some data. Here,
we use the Alaska shapefile from the QGIS sample dataset. Define the colors and styles of the layers in QGIS
and the project CRS, if not already defined.

Figure 14.5: Definitions for a QGIS Server WMS/WFS/WCS project

Then, go to the OWS Server menu of the Project Project Properties dialog and provide some information about
the OWS in the fields under Service Capabilities. This will appear in the GetCapabilities response of the WMS,
WFS or WCS. If you dont check Service capabilities, QGIS Server will use the information given in the
wms_metadata.xml file located in the cgi-bin folder.
Advertencia: If youre using the QGIS project with styling based on SVG files using relative paths then you
should know that the server considers the path relative to its qgis_mapserv.fcgi file (not to the qgs file). So, if
you deploy a project on the server and the SVG files are not placed accordingly, the output images may not
respect the Desktop styling. To ensure this doesnt happen, you can simply copy the SVG files relative to the
qgis_mapserv.fcgi. You can also create a symbolic link in the directory where the fcgi file resides that points
to the directory containing the SVG files (on Linux/Unix).
Capacidades WMS
In the WMS capabilities section, you can define the extent advertised in the WMS GetCapabilities response by
entering the minimum and maximum X and Y values in the fields under Advertised extent. Clicking Use Current
Canvas Extent sets these values to the extent currently displayed in the QGIS map canvas. By checking CRS
restrictions, you can restrict in which coordinate reference systems (CRS) QGIS Server will offer to render maps.
Use the button below to select those CRSs from the Coordinate Reference System Selector, or click Used to
add the CRSs used in the QGIS project to the list.
If you have print composers defined in your project, they will be listed in the GetProjectSettings response, and
they can be used by the GetPrint request to create prints, using one of the print composer layouts as a template.
This is a QGIS-specific extension to the WMS 1.3.0 specification. If you want to exclude any print composer from
being published by the WMS, check Exclude composers and click the button below. Then, select a print
composer from the Select print composer dialog in order to add it to the excluded composers list.
If you want to exclude any layer or layer group from being published by the WMS, check Exclude Layers and
click the button below. This opens the Select restricted layers and groups dialog, which allows you to choose
the layers and groups that you dont want to be published. Use the Shift or Ctrl key if you want to select
multiple entries.
You can receive requested GetFeatureInfo as plain text, XML and GML. Default is XML, text or GML format
depends the output format chosen for the GetFeatureInfo request.
If you wish, you can check Add geometry to feature response. This will include in the GetFeatureInfo response
the geometries of the features in a text format. If you want QGIS Server to advertise specific request URLs in the
WMS GetCapabilities response, enter the corresponding URL in the Advertised URL field. Furthermore, you can
restrict the maximum size of the maps returned by the GetMap request by entering the maximum width and height
into the respective fields under Maximums for GetMap request.
If one of your layers uses the Map Tip display (i.e. to show text using expressions) this will be listed inside the
GetFeatureInfo output. If the layer uses a Value Map for one of its attributes, this information will also be shown
in the GetFeatureInfo output.
QGIS soporta las siguientes peticiones para el servicio WMS:
GetCapabilities
GetMap
GetFeatureInfo
GetLegendGraphic (perfil SLD)
DescribeLayer (perfil SLD)
GetStyles (perfil QGIS personalizado)

Capacidades WFS
In the WFS capabilities area you can select the layers you want to publish as WFS, and specify if they will allow
update, insert and delete operations. If you enter a URL in the Advertised URL field of the WFS capabilities
section, QGIS Server will advertise this specific URL in the WFS GetCapabilities response.
QGIS soporta las siguientes peticiones para el servicio WFS:
GetCapabilities
DescribeFeatureType
GetFeature
Transaccin
capacidades WCS
In the WCS capabilities area, you can select the layers that you want to publish as WCS. If you enter a URL in the
Advertised URL field of the WCS capabilities section, QGIS Server will advertise this specific URL in the WCS
GetCapabilities response.
Ahora, guardarmos la sesin en un archivo de proyecto alaska.qgs. Para proveer el proyecto como
WMS/WFS, creamos una nueva carpeta /usr/lib/cgi-bin/project con privilegios de administrados y
aadimos el archivo del proyecto alaska.qgs y copiamos del archivo qgis_mapserv.fcgi - eso es todo.
Now we test our project WMS, WFS and WCS. Add the WMS, WFS and WCS as described in Cargando capas
WMS/WMTS, Cliente WFS y WFS-T and WCT Cliente to QGIS and load the data. The URL is:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/project/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
QGIS soporta las siguientes peticiones para el servicio WCS:

GetCapabilities
DescribeCoverage
GetCoverage
GetCapabilities Caching
In order to improve response time, QGIS Server caches the responses to the GetCapabilities requests.
When such a request comes, QGIS Server is caching the response and marking the cache valid. At the same time,
it watches if the project file changes. If the project is changed then the cache is marked as invalid and QGIS Server
waits for a new request in order to recreate the cache.
Ajuste fino de OWS
For vector layers, the Fields menu of the Layer Properties dialog allows you to define for each attribute if it
will be published or not. By default, all the attributes are published by your WMS and WFS. If you dont want a
specific attribute to be published, uncheck the corresponding checkbox in the WMS or WFS column.
You can overlay watermarks over the maps produced by your WMS by adding text annotations or SVG annota-
tions to the project file. See the Annotation Tools section in Herramientas generales for instructions on creating
annotations. For annotations to be displayed as watermarks on the WMS output, the Fixed map position check
box in the Annotation text dialog must be unchecked. This can be accessed by double clicking the annotation
while one of the annotation tools is active. For SVG annotations, you will need either to set the project to save
absolute paths (in the General menu of the Project Project Properties dialog) or to manually modify the path
to the SVG image so that it represents a valid relative path.

14.2.3 Configuracin servidor y parmetros soportados
QGIS Server supports some vendor parameters and requests that greatly enhance the possibilities of customising
its behavior. The following paragraphs list the vendor parameters and the environment variables supported by the
server.
Parmetros extra soportados por todos los tipos de peticiones
FILE_NAME parameter: if set, the server response will be sent to the client as a file attachment with the
specified file name.
MAP parameter: Similar to MapServer, the MAP parameter can be used to specify the path to the QGIS
project file. You can specify an absolute path or a path relative to the location of the server executable
(qgis_mapserv.fcgi). If not specified, QGIS Server searches for .qgs files in the directory where the
server executable is located.
Ejemplo:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?\
REQUEST=GetMap&MAP=/home/qgis/mymap.qgs&...
Nota: You can define a QGIS_PROJECT_FILE as an environment variable to tell the server executable where
to find the QGIS project file. This variable will be the location where QGIS will look for the project file. If not
defined it will use the MAP parameter in the request and finally look at the server executable directory.
Parmetros extra soportados por la peticin GetMap del WMS
In the WMS GetMap request, QGIS Server accepts a couple of extra parameters in addition to the standard
parameters according to the OGC WMS 1.3.0 specification:
Parmetro DPI: El parmetro DPI se puede utilizar para especificar la resolucin de la solicitud de salida.
Ejemplo:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?REQUEST=GetMap&DPI=300&...
Parmetro OPACITIES: La opacidad se puede establecer en una capa o nivel de grupo. Los valores permi-
tidos van de 0 (completamente transparente) a 255 (totalmente opaco).
Ejemplo:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?\
REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=mylayer1,mylayer2&OPACITIES=125,200&...
FILTER parameter: (Available in QGIS 1.8 and above). Subsets of layers can be selected with the
FILTER parameter. Syntax is basically the same as for the QGIS subset string. However, there
are some restrictions to avoid SQL injections into databases via QGIS server:
Text strings need to be enclosed with quotes (single quotes for strings, double quotes for attributes)
A space between each word / special character is mandatory. Allowed Keywords and special char-
acters are AND,OR,IN,=,<,>=, >,>=,!=*,(,). Semicolons in string expressions are not
allowed
Ejemplo:
http://myserver.com/cgi/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=mylayer1,mylayer2&FILTER=
Nota: It is possible to make attribute searches via GetFeatureInfo and omit the X/Y parameter if a FILTER is
there. QGIS server then returns info about the matching features and generates a combined bounding box in the
xml output.

SELECTION parameter: (Available in QGIS 1.8 and above) Vector features can be selected by passing
comma separated lists with feature ids in GetMap and GetPrint.
Ejemplo:
http://myserver.com/cgi/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=mylayer1,mylayer2&SELECTI
Parmetros extra soportados por la peticin GetFeatureInfo del WMS
QGIS Server WMS GetFeatureInfo requests supports the following extra optional parameters to define the toler-
ance for point, line and polygon layers:
FI_POINT_TOLERANCE parameter: Tolerance for point layers GetFeatureInfo request, in pixels.
FI_LINE_TOLERANCE parameter: Tolerance for linestring layers GetFeatureInfo request, in pixels.
FI_POLYGON_TOLERANCE parameter: Tolerance for polygon layers GetFeatureInfo request, in pixels.
pedido GetPrint
QGIS server has the capability to create print composer output in pdf or pixel format. Print composer windows
in the published project are used as templates. In the GetPrint request, the client has the possibility to specify
parameters of the contained composer maps and labels.
Ejemplo:
The published project has two composer maps. In the GetProjectSettings response, they are listed as possible print
templates:
<WMS_Capabilities>
...
<ComposerTemplates xsi:type="wms:_ExtendedCapabilities">
<ComposerTemplate width="297" height="210" name="Druckzusammenstellung 1">
<ComposerMap width="171" height="133" name="map0"/>
<ComposerMap width="49" height="46" name="map1"/></ComposerTemplate>
</ComposerTemplates>
...
</WMS_Capabilities>
El cliente ahora tiene la informacin para pedir una salida de impresin:

http://myserver.com/cgi/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?...&REQUEST=GetPrint&TEMPLATE=Druckzusammenstellung 1&ma
Parameters in the GetPrint request are:

<map_id>:EXTENT gives the extent for a composer map as xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax.
<map_id>:ROTATION map rotation in degrees
<map_id>:GRID_INTERVAL_X, <map_id>:GRID_INTERVAL_Y Grid line density for a composer
map in x- and y-direction
<map_id>:SCALE Sets a mapscale to a composer map. This is useful to ensure scale based visibility of
layers and labels even if client and server may have different algorithms to calculate the scale denominator
<map_id>:LAYERS, <map_id>:STYLES possibility to give layer and styles list for composer map (use-
ful in case of overview maps which should have only a subset of layers)
GetLegendGraphics request
Several additional parameters are available to change the size of the legend elements:
BOXSPACE space between legend frame and content (mm)

LAYERSPACE versical space between layers (mm)

LAYERTITLESPACE vertical space between layer title and items following (mm)
SYMBOLSPACE vertical space between symbol and item following (mm)
ICONLABELSPACE horizontal space between symbol and label text (mm)
SYMBOLWIDTH width of the symbol preview (mm)
SYMBOLHEIGHT height of the symbol preview (mm)
These parameters change the font properties for layer titles and item labels:
LAYERFONTFAMILY / ITEMFONTFAMILY font family for layer title / item text
LAYERFONTBOLD / ITEMFONTBOLD TRUE to use a bold font
LAYERFONTSIZE / ITEMFONTSIZE Font size in point
LAYERFONTITALIC / ITEMFONTITALIC TRUE to use italic font
LAYERFONTCOLOR / ITEMFONTCOLOR Hex color code (e.g. #FF0000 for red)
LAYERTITLE / RULELABEL (from QGIS 2.4) set them to FALSE to get only the legend graphics
without labels
Contest based legend. These parameters let the client request a legend showing only the symbols for the features
falling into the requested area:
BBOX the geographical area for which the legend should be built
CRS / SRS the coordinate reference system adopted to define the BBOX coordinates
WIDTH / HEIGHT if set these should match those defined for the GetMap request, to let QGIS Server
scale symbols according to the map view image size.
Contest based legend features are based on the UMN MapServer implementation:
GetProjectSettings request
This request type works similar to GetCapabilities, but it is more specific to QGIS Server and allows a client to
read additional information which is not available in the GetCapabilities output:
initial visibility of layers
information about vector attributes and their edit types
information about layer order and drawing order
list of layers published in WFS
Exportar DXF
It is possible to export layers in the DXF format using the GetMap Request. Only layers that have read access in
the WFS service are exported in the DXF format. Here is a valid REQUEST and a documentation of the available
parameters:
http://your.server.address/wms/liegenschaftsentwaesserung/abwasser_werkplan?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.
Parmetros:
FORMAT=application/dxf
FILE_NAME=yoursuggested_file_name_for_download.dxf
FORMAT_OPTIONS=see options below, key:value pairs separated by Semicolon
FORMAT_OPTIONS Parameters:

SCALE:scale to be used for symbology rules, filters and styles (not an actual scaling of the data - data
remains in the original scale).
MODE:NOSYMBOLOGY|FEATURESYMBOLOGY|SYMBOLLAYERSYMBOLOGY corresponds
to the three export options offered in the QGIS Desktop DXF export dialog.
LAYERSATTRIBUTES:yourcolumn_with_values_to_be_used_for_dxf_layernames - if not specified,
the original QGIS layer names are used.
USE_TITLE_AS_LAYERNAME if enabled, the title of the layer will be used as layer name.
Extra parameters supported by the WFS GetFeature request
In the WFS GetFeature request, QGIS Server accepts two extra parameters in addition to the standard parameters
according to the OGC WFS 1.0.0 specification:
GeometryName parameter: this parameter can be used to get the extent or the centroid as the geometry or
no geometry if none if used (ie attribute only). Allowed values are extent, centroid or none.
StartIndex parameter: STARTINDEX is standard in WFS 2.0, but its an extension for WFS 1.0.0 which
is the only version implemented in QGIS Server. STARTINDEX can be used to skip some features in the
result set and in combination with MAXFEATURES will provide for the ability to use WFS GetFeature to
page through results. Note that STARTINDEX=0 means start with the first feature, skipping none.
QGIS Server logging
To log requests sent to the server, set the following environment variables:
QGIS_SERVER_LOG_FILE: Specify path and filename. Make sure that the server has proper permis-
sions for writing to file. File should be created automatically, just send some requests to server. If its not
there, check permissions.
QGIS_SERVER_LOG_LEVEL: Especifica el nivel de registro deseado. los valores disponibles son:
0 INFO (registrar todas las solicitudes),
1 ADVERTENCIA,
2 CRTICA (Registrar slo errores crticos, adecuado para fines de produccin)
Ejemplo:
SetEnv QGIS_SERVER_LOG_FILE /var/tmp/qgislog.txt
SetEnv QGIS_SERVER_LOG_LEVEL 0
Nota:
Al usar el mdulo Fcgid utilice FcgidInitialEnv en lugar de SetEnv!
Server logging is also enabled if executable is compiled in release mode.
Short name for layers, groups and project
A number of elements have both a <Name> and a <Title>. The Name is a text string used for machine-to-
machine communication while the Title is for the benefit of humans.
For example, a dataset might have the descriptive Title Maximum Atmospheric Temperature and be requested
using the abbreviated Name ATMAX. User can already set title for layers, groups and project.
OWS name is based on the name used in layer tree. This name is more a label for humans than a name for
machine-to-machine communication.
Servidor QGIS soporta:

short name line edits to layers properties

WMS data dialog to layer tree group (short name, title, abstract) By right clicking on a layer group and
selecting the Set Group WMS data option you will get:
short name line edits to project properties- add a regexp validator "^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9\._-]*"
to short name line edit accessible through a static method
add a regexp validator "^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9\._-]*" to short name line edit accessible through a
static method
add a TreeName element in the fullProjectSettings
If a short name has been set for layers, groups and project it is used by QGIS Sever as the layer name.
Connection to service file
In order to make apache aware of the PostgreSQL service file (see the Service connection file section) you need to
make your *.conf file look like:
SetEnv PGSERVICEFILE /home/web/.pg_service.conf
<Directory "/home/web/apps2/bin/">
AllowOverride None
.....
Add fonts to your linux server
Keep in mind that you may use QGIS projects that point to fonts that may not exist by default on other machines.
This means that if you share the project, it may look different on other machines (if the fonts dont exist on the
target machine).
In order to ensure this does not happen you just need to install the missing fonts on the target machine. Doing this
on desktop systems is usually trivial (double clicking the fonts).
For linux, if you dont have a desktop environment installed (or you prefer the command line) you need to:
On Debian based systems:
sudo su
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts && cd /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/myfont

# copy the fonts from their location

cp /fonts_location/* .
chown root *
cd .. && fc-cache -f -v
On Fedora based systems:

sudo su
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/myfonts && cd /usr/share/fonts/myfonts
# copy the fonts from their location

cp /fonts_location/* .
chown root *
cd .. && fc-cache -f -v
Variables de entorno
You can configure some aspects of QGIS server by setting environment variables. For example, to set QGIS
server on Apache to use /path/to/config/QGIS/QGIS2.ini settings file, add to Apache config:
SetEnv QGIS_OPTIONS_PATH "/path/to/config/"
or, if using fcgi:

FcgidInitialEnv QGIS_OPTIONS_PATH "/path/to/config/"
This is a list of the variables supported by QGIS server:

QGIS_OPTIONS_PATH: Specifies the path to the directory with settings. It works the
same way as QGIS application optionspath option. It is looking for settings file in
<QGIS_OPTIONS_PATH>/QGIS/QGIS2.ini.
QUERY_STRING: The query string, normally passed by the web server. This variable can be useful while
testing QGIS server binary from the command line.
QGIS_PROJECT_FILE: the .qgs project file, normally passed as a parameter in the query string, you can
also set it as an environment variable (for example by using mod_rewrite Apache module).
QGIS_SERVER_LOG_FILE: Especifica la ruta y el nombre de archivo. Comprobar que el servidor tiene
los permisos apropiados para escritura de archivo. El archivo debe ser creado automticamente, slo envi
algunas solicitudes al servidor. Si no est all, verifique los permisos.
QGIS_SERVER_LOG_LEVEL: Specify desired log level. See QGIS Server logging
MAX_CACHE_LAYERS: Specify the maximum number of cached layers (default: 100).
DISPLAY: This is used to pass (fake) X server display number (needed on Unix-like systems).
QGIS_PLUGINPATH: Useful if you are using Python plugins for the server, this sets the folder that is
searched for Python plugins.


CHAPTER 15
Trabajar con datos GPS
15.1 Plugin de GPS
15.1.1 Qu es GPS?
GPS, the Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based system that allows anyone with a GPS receiver to find their
exact position anywhere in the world. GPS is used as an aid in navigation, for example in airplanes, in boats and
by hikers. The GPS receiver uses the signals from the satellites to calculate its latitude, longitude and (sometimes)
elevation. Most receivers also have the capability to store locations (known as waypoints), sequences of locations
that make up a planned route and a tracklog or track of the receivers movement over time. Waypoints, routes
and tracks are the three basic feature types in GPS data. QGIS displays waypoints in point layers, while routes
and tracks are displayed in linestring layers.
15.1.2 Loading GPS data from a file
There are dozens of different file formats for storing GPS data. The format that QGIS uses is called GPX (GPS
eXchange format), which is a standard interchange format that can contain any number of waypoints, routes and
tracks in the same file.
To load a GPX file, you first need to load the plugin. Plugins Plugin Manager... opens the Plugin Manager
Dialog. Activate the GPS Tools checkbox. When this plugin is loaded, a button with a small handheld GPS
device will show up in the toolbar and in Layer Create Layer :
Herramientas GPS

Create new GPX Layer

For working with GPS data, we provide an example GPX file available in the QGIS sample dataset:
qgis_sample_data/gps/national_monuments.gpx. See section Datos de ejemplo for more infor-
mation about the sample data.
GPS Tools
1. Select Vector GPS GPS Tools or click the icon in the toolbar and open the Load GPX file
tab (see figure_GPS_1).
2. Browse to the folder qgis_sample_data/gps/, select the GPX file national_monuments.gpx
and click [Open].
Use the [Browse...] button to select the GPX file, then use the checkboxes to select the feature types you want
to load from that GPX file. Each feature type will be loaded in a separate layer when you click [OK]. The file
national_monuments.gpx only includes waypoints.
Nota: GPS units allow you to store data in different coordinate systems. When downloading a GPX file
(from your GPS unit or a web site) and then loading it in QGIS, be sure that the data stored in the GPX
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Figure 15.1: La ventana de dilogo Herramientas GPS
file uses WGS 84 (latitude/longitude). QGIS expects this, and it is the official GPX specification. See
http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/.
15.1.3 GPSBabel
Since QGIS uses GPX files, you need a way to convert other GPS file formats to GPX. This can be done for many
formats using the free program GPSBabel, which is available at http://www.gpsbabel.org. This program can also
transfer GPS data between your computer and a GPS device. QGIS uses GPSBabel to do these things, so it is
recommended that you install it. However, if you just want to load GPS data from GPX files you will not need it.
Version 1.2.3 of GPSBabel is known to work with QGIS, but you should be able to use later versions without any
problems.
15.1.4 Importando datos GPS
To import GPS data from a file that is not a GPX file, you use the tool Import other file in the GPS Tools dialog.
Here, you select the file that you want to import (and the file type), which feature type you want to import from it,
where you want to store the converted GPX file and what the name of the new layer should be. Note that not all
GPS data formats will support all three feature types, so for many formats you will only be able to choose between
one or two types.
15.1.5 Downloading GPS data from a device
QGIS can use GPSBabel to download data from a GPS device directly as new vector layers. For this we use the
Download from GPS tab of the GPS Tools dialog (see Figure_GPS_2). Here, we select the type of GPS device,
the port that it is connected to (or USB if your GPS supports this), the feature type that you want to download, the
GPX file where the data should be stored, and the name of the new layer.
The device type you select in the GPS device menu determines how GPSBabel tries to communicate with your
GPS device. If none of the available types work with your GPS device, you can create a new type (see section
Defining new device types).
The port may be a file name or some other name that your operating system uses as a reference to the physical port
in your computer that the GPS device is connected to. It may also be simply USB, for USB-enabled GPS units.
On Linux, this is something like /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1.

On Windows, it is COM1 or COM2.
When you click [OK], the data will be downloaded from the device and appear as a layer in QGIS.
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Figure 15.2: The download tool
15.1.6 Uploading GPS data to a device
You can also upload data directly from a vector layer in QGIS to a GPS device using the Upload to GPS tab of
the GPS Tools dialog. To do this, you simply select the layer that you want to upload (which must be a GPX
layer), your GPS device type, and the port (or USB) that it is connected to. Just as with the download tool, you
can specify new device types if your device isnt in the list.
This tool is very useful in combination with the vector-editing capabilities of QGIS. It allows you to load a map,
create waypoints and routes, and then upload them and use them on your GPS device.
15.1.7 Defining new device types
There are lots of different types of GPS devices. The QGIS developers cant test all of them, so if you have one
that does not work with any of the device types listed in the Download from GPS and Upload to GPS tools, you
can define your own device type for it. You do this by using the GPS device editor, which you start by clicking
the [Edit devices] button in the download or the upload tab.
To define a new device, you simply click the [New device] button, enter a name, enter download and upload
commands for your device, and click the [Update device] button. The name will be listed in the device menus in
the upload and download windows it can be any string. The download command is the command that is used to
download data from the device to a GPX file. This will probably be a GPSBabel command, but you can use any
other command line program that can create a GPX file. QGIS will replace the keywords %type, %in, and %out
when it runs the command.
%type will be replaced by -w if you are downloading waypoints, -r if you are downloading routes and -t if
you are downloading tracks. These are command-line options that tell GPSBabel which feature type to download.
%in will be replaced by the port name that you choose in the download window and %out will be replaced by
the name you choose for the GPX file that the downloaded data should be stored in. So, if you create a device
type with the download command gpsbabel %type -i garmin -o gpx %in %out (this is actually the
download command for the predefined device type Garmin serial) and then use it to download waypoints from
port /dev/ttyS0 to the file output.gpx, QGIS will replace the keywords and run the command gpsbabel
-w -i garmin -o gpx /dev/ttyS0 output.gpx.
The upload command is the command that is used to upload data to the device. The same keywords are used, but
%in is now replaced by the name of the GPX file for the layer that is being uploaded, and %out is replaced by
the port name.
You can learn more about GPSBabel and its available command line options at http://www.gpsbabel.org.
Once you have created a new device type, it will appear in the device lists for the download and upload tools.
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15.1.8 Download of points/tracks from GPS units
As described in previous sections QGIS uses GPSBabel to download points/tracks directly in the project. QGIS
comes out of the box with a pre-defined profile to download from Garmin devices. Unfortunately there is a bug
#6318 that does not allow create other profiles, so downloading directly in QGIS using the GPS Tools is at the
moment limited to Garmin USB units.
Garmin GPSMAP 60cs
MS Windows
Install the Garmin USB drivers from http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=591
Connect the unit. Open GPS Tools and use type=garmin serial and port=usb: Fill the fields Layer
name and Output file. Sometimes it seems to have problems saving in a certain folder, using something like
c:\temp usually works.
Ubuntu/Mint GNU/Linux
It is first needed an issue about the permissions of the device, as described at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USB_Garmin_on_GNU/Linux. You can try to create a file
/etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules containing this rule
ATTRS{idVendor}=="091e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"
After that is necessary to be sure that the garmin_gps kernel module is not loaded
rmmod garmin_gps
and then you can use the GPS Tools. Unfortunately there seems to be a bug #7182 and usually QGIS freezes
several times before the operation work fine.
BTGP-38KM datalogger (only Bluetooth)
MS Windows
The already referred bug does not allow to download the data from within QGIS, so it is needed to use GPSBabel
from the command line or using its interface. The working command is
gpsbabel -t -i skytraq,baud=9600,initbaud=9600 -f COM9 -o gpx -F C:/GPX/aaa.gpx
Use same command (or settings if you use GPSBabel GUI) as in Windows. On Linux it maybe somehow common
to get a message like
skytraq: Too many read errors on serial port
it is just a matter to turn off and on the datalogger and try again.
BlueMax GPS-4044 datalogger (both BT and USB)
MS Windows
Nota: Se necesita instalar los controladores antes de usarlo en Windows 7. Vea el sitio del fabricante para la
descarga apropiada.
Downloading with GPSBabel, both with USB and BT returns always an error like
gpsbabel -t -i mtk -f COM12 -o gpx -F C:/temp/test.gpx
mtk_logger: Cant create temporary file data.bin
Error running gpsbabel: Process exited unsuccessfully with code 1

Con USB
After having connected the cable use the dmesg command to understand what port is being used, for example
/dev/ttyACM3. Then as usual use GPSBabel from the CLI or GUI
gpsbabel -t -i mtk -f /dev/ttyACM3 -o gpx -F /home/user/bluemax.gpx
Con Bluetooth
Use Blueman Device Manager to pair the device and make it available through a system port, then run GPSBabel
gpsbabel -t -i mtk -f /dev/rfcomm0 -o gpx -F /home/user/bluemax_bt.gpx
15.2 Seguimiento de GPS en Vivo
To activate live GPS tracking in QGIS, you need to select Settings Panels GPS information. You will get a
new docked window on the left side of the canvas.
There are four possible screens in this GPS tracking window:
GPS position coordinates and an interface for manually entering vertices and features
GPS signal strength of satellite connections
GPS polar screen showing number and polar position of satellites

GPS options screen (see figure_gps_options)
With a plugged-in GPS receiver (has to be supported by your operating system), a simple click on [Connect] con-
nects the GPS to QGIS. A second click (now on [Disconnect]) disconnects the GPS receiver from your computer.
For GNU/Linux, gpsd support is integrated to support connection to most GPS receivers. Therefore, you first have
to configure gpsd properly to connect QGIS to it.
Advertencia: If you want to record your position to the canvas, you have to create a new vector layer first
and switch it to editable status to be able to record your track.
15.2.1 Position and additional attributes
If the GPS is receiving signals from satellites, you will see your position in latitude, longitude and altitude
together with additional attributes.
15.2.2 GPS signal strength
Here, you can see the signal strength of the satellites you are receiving signals from.
15.2.3 GPS polar window
If you want to know where in the sky all the connected satellites are, you have to switch to the polar screen.
You can also see the ID numbers of the satellites you are receiving signals from.
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Figure 15.3: GPS tracking position and additional attributes
Figure 15.4: GPS tracking signal strength

Figure 15.5: GPS tracking polar window
15.2.4 Opciones GPS
In case of connection problems, you can switch between:
Autodetect
Internal
Serial device
gpsd (selecting the Host, Port and Device your GPS is connected to)
A click on [Connect] again initiates the connection to the GPS receiver.
You can activate Automatically save added features when you are in editing mode. Or you can activate
Automatically add points to the map canvas with a certain width and color.
Activating Cursor, you can use a slider to shrink and grow the position cursor on the
canvas.
Activating Map centering allows you to decide in which way the canvas will be updated. This includes
always, when leaving, if your recorded coordinates start to move out of the canvas, or never, to keep map
extent.
Finally, you can activate Log file and define a path and a file where log messages about the GPS tracking are
logged.
Position
If you want to set a feature manually, you have to go back to and click on [Add Point] or [Add track
point].
15.2.5 Connect to a Bluetooth GPS for live tracking
With QGIS you can connect a Bluetooth GPS for field data collection. To perform this task you need a GPS
Bluetooth device and a Bluetooth receiver on your computer.
At first you must let your GPS device be recognized and paired to the computer. Turn on the GPS, go to the
Bluetooth icon on your notification area and search for a New Device.
On the right side of the Device selection mask make sure that all devices are selected so your GPS unit will
probably appear among those available. In the next step a serial connection service should be available, select it
and click on [Configure] button.
Remember the number of the COM port assigned to the GPS connection as resulting by the Bluetooth properties.
After the GPS has been recognized, make the pairing for the connection. Usually the authorization code is 0000.

Figure 15.6: GPS tracking options window

Now open GPS information panel and switch to GPS options screen. Select the COM port assigned to the GPS
connection and click the [Connect]. After a while a cursor indicating your position should appear.
If QGIS cant receive GPS data, then you should restart your GPS device, wait 5-10 seconds then try to connect
again. Usually this solution work. If you receive again a connection error make sure you dont have another
Bluetooth receiver near you, paired with the same GPS unit.
15.2.6 Using GPSMAP 60cs
MS Windows
Easiest way to make it work is to use a middleware (freeware, not open) called GPSGate.
Launch the program, make it scan for GPS devices (works for both USB and BT ones) and then in QGIS just click
[Connect] in the Live tracking panel using the Autodetect mode.
Para Windows la formas ms fcil es usar un servidor en medio, en este caso GPSD, de manera
sudo apt-get install gpsd
Then load the garmin_gps kernel module

sudo modprobe garmin_gps
And then connect the unit. Then check with dmesg the actual device being used bu the unit, for example
/dev/ttyUSB0. Now you can launch gpsd
gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0
Y finalmente conectar con la herramienta de rastreo en vivo QGIS.
15.2.7 Using BTGP-38KM datalogger (only Bluetooth)
Using GPSD (under Linux) or GPSGate (under Windows) is effortless.
15.2.8 Using BlueMax GPS-4044 datalogger (both BT and USB)
MS Windows
The live tracking works for both USB and BT modes, by using GPSGate or even without it, just use the
Autodetect mode, or point the tool the right port.
Para USB
The live tracking works both with GPSD
gpsd /dev/ttyACM3
or without it, by connecting the QGIS live tracking tool directly to the device (for example /dev/ttyACM3).
Para Bluetooth
The live tracking works both with GPSD

gpsd /dev/rfcomm0
or without it, by connecting the QGIS live tracking tool directly to the device (for example /dev/rfcomm0).

CHAPTER 16
Sistema de autenticacin
16.1 Authentication System Overview
Figure 16.1: Anatomy of authentication system
16.1.1 Authentication database
The new authentication system stores authentication configurations in an SQLite database file located, by default,
at:
<user home>\.qgis2\qgis-auth.db
This authentication database can be moved between QGIS installations without affecting other current QGIS user
preferences, as it is completely separate from normal QGIS settings. A configuration ID (a random 7-character
alphanumeric string) is generated when initially storing a configuration to the database. This represents the con-
figuration, thereby allowing the ID to be stored in plain text application components, (such as project, plugin, or
settings files) without disclosure of its associated credentials.
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Nota: The parent directory of the qgis-auth.db can be set using the following environment variable,
QGIS_AUTH_DB_DIR_PATH, or set on the command line during launch with the --authdbdirectory
option.
16.1.2 Master password
To store or access sensitive information within the database, a user must define a master password. A new master
password is requested and verified when initially storing any encrypted data to the database. Only when sensitive
information is accessed is the user prompted for the master password, which is then cached for the remainder of
the session (until application is quit), unless the user manually chooses an action to clear its cached value. Some
instances of using the authentication system do not require input of the master password, such as when selecting an
existing authentication configuration, or applying a configuration to a server configuration (such as when adding
a WMS layer).
Figure 16.2: Input new master password
Nota: A path to a file containing the master password can be set using the following environment variable,
QGIS_AUTH_PASSWORD_FILE.
Managing the master password
Once set, the master password can be reset; the current master password will be needed prior to resetting. During
this process, there is an option to generate a complete backup of the current database.
Figure 16.3: Resetting master password
If the user forgets the master password, there is no way to retrieve or override it. There is also no means of
retrieving encrypted information without knowing the master password.
If a user inputs their existing password incorrectly three times, the dialog will offer to erase the database.
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Figure 16.4: Password prompt after three invalid attempts
16.1.3 Authentication Configurations
You can manage authentication configurations from Configurations in the Authentication tab of the QGIS Options
dialog (Settings Options).
Figure 16.5: Configurations editor
Use the button to add a new configuration, the button to remove configurations, and the button to
modify existing ones.
The same type of operations for authentication configuration management (Add, Edit and Remove) can be done
when configuring a given service connection, such as configuring an OWS service connection. For that, there are
action buttons within the configuration selector for fully managing configurations found within the authentication
database. In this case, there is no need to go to the configurations in Authentication tab of QGIS options unless
you need to do more comprehensive configuration management.
When creating or editing an authentication configuration, the info required is a name, an authentication method
and any other info that the authentication method requires (see more about the available authentication types in
Authentication Methods).
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Figure 16.6: Adding config from within Configuration editor
Figure 16.7: WMS connection dialog showing [Add], [Edit], and [Remove] authentication configuration buttons

16.1.4 Authentication Methods
Available authentications are provided by C++ plugins much in the same way data provider plugins are sup-
ported by QGIS. The method of authentication that can be selected is relative to the access needed for the re-
source/provider, e.g. HTTP(S) or database, and whether there is support in both QGIS code and a plugin. As such,
some authentication method plugins may not be applicable everywhere an authentication configuration selector is
shown. A list of available authentication method plugins and their compatible resource/providers can be accessed
going to Settings > Option and, in the Authentication tab, click the Installed plugins button.
Figure 16.8: Available method plugins list
Plugins can be created for new authentication methods that do not require QGIS to be recompiled. Since the
support for plugins is currently (since QGIS 2.12) C++-only, QGIS will need to be restarted for the new dropped-
in plugin to become available to the user. Ensure your plugin is compiled against the same target version of QGIS
if you intend to add it to an existing target install.
Figure 16.9: Basic HTTP authentication configs
Nota: The Resource URL is currently an unimplemented feature that will eventually allow a particular configu-
ration to be auto-chosen when connecting to resources at a given URL.
16.1.5 Master Password and Auth Config Utilities
Under the Options menu (Settings Options) in the Authentication tab, there are several utility actions to manage
the authentication database and configurations:
Input master password Opens the master password input dialog, independent of performing any auth db
command. Clear cached master passwordUnsets the master password if it has been set via input dialog.

Figure 16.10: PKI paths authentication configs
Figure 16.11: PKI PKCS#12 file paths authentication configs
Figure 16.12: Stored Identity authentication configs

Figure 16.13: Utilities menu
Reset master passwordOpens a dialog to change the master password (the current password must be
known) and optionally back up the current database.
Clear cached authentication configurations Clears the internal lookup cache for configurations used to
speed up network connections. This does not clear QGISs core network access managers cache, which
requires a relaunch of QGIS.
Reset master password - Replaces the current master password for a new one. The current master password
will be needed prior to resetting and a backup of database can be done.
Remove all authentication configurations Clears the database of all configuration records, without re-
moving other stored records.
Erase authentication database Schedules a backup of the current database and complete rebuild of the
database table structure. These actions are scheduled for a later time, so as to ensure other operations like
project loading do not interrupt the operation or cause errors due to a temporarily missing database.
Figure 16.14: DB erase verification menu
16.1.6 Using authentication configurations
Typically, an authentication configuration is selected in a configuration dialog for a network services (such as
WMS). However, the selector widget can be embedded anywhere authentication is needed or in non-core func-
tionality, like in third-party PyQGIS or C++ plugins.
When using the selector, No authentication is displayed in the pop-up menu control when nothing is selected,
when there are no configurations to choose from, or when a previously assigned configuration can no longer be
found in the database. The Type and Id fields are read-only and provide a description of the authentication method
and the configs ID respectively.
16.1.7 Python bindings
All classes and public functions have sip bindings, except QgsAuthCrypto, since management of the master
password hashing and auth database encryption should be handled by the main app, and not via Python. See
Consideraciones de Seguridad concerning Python access.

Figure 16.15: Auth config selector with no autentication
Figure 16.16: Auth config selector with config selected
16.2 User Authentication Workflows
Figure 16.17: Generic user workflow
16.2.1 HTTP(S) authentication
One of the most common resource connections is via HTTP(S), e.g. web mapping servers, and authentication
method plugins often work for these types of connections. Method plugins have access to the HTTP request
object and can manipulate both the request as well as its headers. This allows for many forms of internet-based
authentication. When connecting via HTTP(S) using the standard username/password authentication method will
attempt HTTP BASIC authentication upon connection.

Figure 16.18: Configuring a WMS connection for HTTP BASIC
16.2.2 Database authentication
Connections to database resources are generally stored as key=value pairs, which will expose usernames and
(optionally) passwords, if not using an authentication configuration. When configuring with the new auth system,
the key=value will be an abstracted representation of the credentials, e.g. authfg=81t21b9
16.2.3 PKI authentication
When configuring PKI components within the authentication system, you have the option of importing compo-
nents into the database or referencing component files stored on your filesystem. The latter may be useful if such
components change frequently, or where the components will be replaced by a system administrator. In either
instance you will need to store any passphrase needed to access private keys within the database.
All PKI components can be managed in separate editors within the Certificate Manager, which can be accessed
in the Authentication tab in QGIS Options dialog (Settings Options) by clicking the [Manage certificates]
button.
In the Certificate manager, there are editors for Identities, Servers and Authorities. Each of these are contained
in their own tabs, and are described below in the order they are encountered in the workflow chart above. The tab
order is relative to frequently accessed editors once you are accustomed to the workflow.
Nota: Because all authentication system edits write immediately to the authentication database, there is no need
to click the Options dialog [OK] button for any changes to be saved. This is unlike other settings in the Options
dialog.
Autoridades
You can manage available Certificate Authorities (CAs) from the Authorities tab in the Certificate manager from
the Authentication tab of the QGIS Options dialog.
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Figure 16.19: Configuring a Postgres SSL-with-PKI connection
As referenced in the workflow chart above, the first step is to import or reference a file of CAs. This step is
optional, and may be unnecessary if your PKI trust chain originates from root CAs already installed in your
operating system (OS), such as a certificate from a commercial certificate vendor. If your authenticating root CA
is not in the OSs trusted root CAs, it will need to be imported or have its file system path referenced. (Contact
your system administrator if unsure.)
By default, the root CAs from your OS are available; however, their trust settings are not inherited. You should
review the certificate trust policy settings, especially if your OS root CAs have had their policies adjusted. Any
certificate that is expired will be set to untrusted and will not be used in secure server connections, unless you
specifically override its trust policy. To see the QGIS-discoverable trust chain for any certificate, select it and click
Show information for certificate
the .
You can edit the trust policy for any selected certificate within the chain. Any change in trust policy to
Save certificate trust policy change to database
a selected certificate will not be saved to the database unless the button is
clicked per selected certification. Closing the dialog will not apply the policy changes.
You can review the filtered CAs, both intermediate and root certificates, that will be trusted for secure connections
or change the default trust policy by clicking the Options button.
Advertencia: Changing the default trust policy may result in problems with secure connections.
You can import CAs or save a file system path from a file that contains multiple CAs, or import individual CAs.
The standard PEM format for files that contain multiple CA chain certifications has the root cert at the bottom of
the file and all subsequently signed child certificates above, towards the beginning of the file.
The CA certificate import dialog will find all CA certificates within the file, regardless of order, and also offers the
option to import certificates that are considered invalid (in case you want to override their trust policy). You can
override the trust policy upon import, or do so later within the Authorities editor.

Figure 16.20: PKI configuration workflow

Figure 16.21: Opening the Certificate Manager
Figure 16.22: Authorities editor

Figure 16.23: Certificate info dialog
Figure 16.24: Saving the trust policy changes
Figure 16.25: Authorities options menu

Figure 16.26: Import certificates dialog
Nota: If you are pasting certificate information into the PEM text field, note that encrypted certificates are not
supported.
Identities
You can manage available client identity bundles from the Identities tab in the Certificate manager from the
Authentication tab of the QGIS Options dialog. An identity is what authenticates you against a PKI-enabled
service and usually consists of a client certificate and private key, either as separate files or combined into a single
bundled file. The bundle or private key is often passphrase-protected.
Once you have any Certificate Authorities (CAs) imported you can optionally import any identity bundles into the
authentication database. If you do not wish to store the identities, you can reference their component file system
paths within an individual authentication configuration.
When importing an identity bundle, it can be passphrase-protected or unprotected, and can contain CA certificates
forming a trust chain. Trust chain certifications will not be imported here; they can be added separately under the
Authorities tab.
Upon import the bundles certificate and private key will be stored in the database, with the keys storage encrypted
using the QGIS master password. Subsequent usage of the stored bundle from the database will only require input
of the master password.
Personal identity bundles consisting of PEM/DER (.pem/.der) and PKCS#12 (.p12/.pfx) components are sup-
ported. If a key or bundle is passphrase-protected, the password will be required to validate the component prior
to import. Likewise, if the client certificate in the bundle is invalid (for example, its effective date has not yet
started or has elapsed) the bundle can not be imported.
16.2.4 Handling bad layers
Occasionally, the authentication configuration ID that is saved with a project file is no longer valid, possibly
because the current authentication database is different than when the project was last saved, or due to a credentials
mismatch. In such cases the Handle bad layers dialog will be presented upon QGIS launch.

Figure 16.27: Identities editor
Figure 16.28: PEM/DER identity import

Figure 16.29: PKCS#12 identity import
Figure 16.30: Handle bad layers with authentication

If a data source is found to have an authentication configuration ID associated with it, you will be able to edit it.
Doing so will automatically edit the data source string, much in the same way as opening the project file in a text
editor and editing the string.
Figure 16.31: Edit bad layers authentication config ID
16.2.5 Changing authentication config ID
Occasionally, you will need to change the authenticationn configuration ID that is associated with accessing a
resource. There are instances where this is useful:
Resource auth config ID is no longer valid - This can occur when you have switched auth databases add
need to align a new configuration to the ID already associated with a resource.
Shared project files - If you intended to share projects between users, e.g. via a shared file server, you can
predefine a 7-character (containing a-z and/or 0-9) that is associated with the resource. Then, individual
users change the ID of an authentication configuration that is specific to their credentials of the resource.
When the project is opened, the ID is found in the authentication database, but the credentials are different
per user.
Figure 16.32: Changing a layers authentication config ID (unlocked yellow text field)

Advertencia: Changing the auth config ID is considered an advanced operation and should only be done with
full knowledge as to why it is necessary. This is why there is a lock button that needs clicked, to unlock the
IDs text field prior to editing the ID.
16.2.6 Soporte de Servidor QGIS
When using a project file, with layers that have authentication configurations, as a basis for a map in QGIS Server,
there are a couple of additional setup steps necessary for QGIS to load the resources:
La base de datos de autenticacin necesita estar disponible
Authentication databases master password needs to be available
When instantiating the authentication system, Server will create or use qgis-auth.db in ~/.qgis2/ or the
directory defined by the QGIS_AUTH_DB_DIR_PATH environment variable. It may be that the Servers user has
no HOME directory, in which case, use the environment variable to define a directory that the Servers user has
read/write permissions and is not located within the web-accessible directories.
To pass the master password to Server, write it to the first line of file at a path on the file system readable by the
Server processes user and defined using the QGIS_AUTH_PASSWORD_FILE environment variable. Ensure to
limit the file as only readable by the Servers process user and to not store the file within web-accessible directories.
Nota: QGIS_AUTH_PASSWORD_FILE variable will be removed from the Server environment immediately
after accessing
16.2.7 excepciones de servidor SSL
Figure 16.33: excepcin de servidor SSL
You can manage SSL server configurations and exceptions from the Servers tab in the Authentication section of
the QGIS Options dialog.
Sometimes, when connecting to an SSL server, there are errors with the SSL handshake or the servers certifi-
cate. You can ignore those errors or create an SSL server configuration as an exception. This is similar to how
web browsers allow you to override SSL errors, but with more granular control.
Advertencia: You should not create an SSL server configuration unless you have complete knowledge of the
entire SSL setup between the server and client. Instead, report the issue to the server administrator.
Nota: Some PKI setups use a completely different CA trust chain to validate client identities than the chain used
to validate the SSL server certificate. In such circumstances, any configuration created for the connecting server
will not necessarily fix an issue with the validation of your client identity, and only your client identitys issuer or
server administrator can fix the issue.

You can pre-configure an SSL server configuration by clicking the button. Alternatively, you can add a
configuration when an SSL error occurs during a connection and you are presented with an SSL Error dialog
(where the error can be ignored temporarily or saved to the database and ignored):
Figure 16.34: Adicin manual de configuracin
Once an SSL configuration is saved to the database, it can be edited or deleted.

If you want to pre-configure an SSL configuration and the import dialog is not working for your servers con-
nection, you can manually trigger a connection via the Python Console by running the following code (replace
https://bugreports.qt-project.org with the URL of your server):
from PyQt4.QtNetwork import *
req = QNetworkRequest(QUrl(https://bugreports.qt-project.org))
reply = QgsNetworkAccessManager.instance().get(req)
This will open an SSL error dialog if any errors occur, where you can choose to save the configuration to the
database.
16.3 Consideraciones de Seguridad
Once the master password is entered, the API is open to access authentication configs in the authentication
database, similar to how Firefox works. However, in the initial implementation, no wall against PyQGIS ac-
cess has been defined. This may lead to issues where a user downloads/installs a malicious PyQGIS plugin or
standalone app that gains access to authentication credentials.
The quick solution for initial release of feature is to just not include most PyQGIS bindings for the authentication
system.
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Figure 16.35: Adicionar configuracin durante un error SSL
Figure 16.36: Configuracin SSL existente

Figure 16.37: Editar una configuracin SSL existente
Another simple, though not robust, fix is to add a combobox in Settings Options Authentication (defaults to
never):
"Allow Python access to authentication system"
Choices: [ confirm once per session | always confirm | always allow | never]
Such an options setting would need to be saved in a location non-accessible to Python, e.g. the authentication
database, and encrypted with the master password.
Another option may be to track which plugins the user has specifically
allowed to access the authentication system, though it may be tricky to deduce which plugin is actually
making the call.
Sandboxing plugins, possibly in their own virtual environments, would reduce cross-plugin hacking of
authentication configs from another plugin that is authorized. This might mean limiting cross-plugin com-
munication as well, but maybe only between third-party plugins.
Another good solution is to issue code-signing certificates to vetted plugin authors. Then validate the plu-
gins certificate upon loading. If need be the user can also directly set an untrusted policy for the certificate
associated with the plugin using existing certificate management dialogs.
Alternatively, access to sensitive authentication system data from Python
could never be allowed, and only the use of QGIS core widgets, or duplicating authentication system in-
tegrations, would allow the plugin to work with resources that have an authentication configuration, while
keeping master password and authentication config loading in the realm of the main app.
The same security concerns apply to C++ plugins, though it will be harder to restrict access, since there is no
function binding to simply be removed as with Python.
16.3.1 Limitaciones
The confusing licensing and exporting issues associated with OpenSSL apply. In order for Qt to work with SSL
certificates, it needs access to the OpenSSL libraries. Depending upon how Qt was compiled, the default is to
dynamically link to the OpenSSL libs at run-time (to avoid the export limitations).
QCA follows a similar tactic, whereby linking to QCA incurs no restrictions, because the qca-ossl (OpenSSL)
plugin is loaded at run-time. The qca-ossl plugin is directly linked to the OpenSSL libs. Packagers would be the
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ones needing to ensure any OpenSSL-linking restrictions are met, if they ship the plugin. Maybe. I dont really
know. Im not a lawyer.
The authentication system safely disables itself when qca-ossl is not found at run-time.

CHAPTER 17
Integracion GRASS SIG
GRASS integration provides access to GRASS GIS databases and functionalities (see GRASS-PROJECT in Ref-
erencias bibliogrficas y web). The integration consists of two parts: provider and plugin. The provider allows
to browse, manage and visualize GRASS raster and vector layers. The plugin can be used to create new GRASS
locations and mapsets, change GRASS region, create and edit vector layers and analyze GRASS 2-D and 3-D data
with more than 400 GRASS modules. In this section, well introduce the provider and plugin functionalities and
give some examples of managing and working with GRASS data.
The provider supports GRASS version 6 and 7, the plugin supports GRASS 6 and 7 (starting from QGIS 2.12).
QGIS distribution may contain provider/plugin for either GRASS 6 or GRASS 7 or for both versions at the same
time (binaries have different file names). Only one version of the provider/plugin may be loaded on runtime
however.
17.1 Conjuntos de datos demostracin
As an example, we will use the QGIS Alaska dataset (see section Datos de ejemplo). It includes
a small sample GRASS LOCATION with three vector layers and one raster elevation map. Create a
new folder called grassdata, download the QGIS Alaska dataset qgis_sample_data.zip from
http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/ and unzip the file into grassdata.
More sample GRASS LOCATIONs are available at the GRASS website at
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/sample-data/.
17.2 Cargar capas rster y vectorial de GRASS
If the provider is loaded in QGIS, the location item with GRASS icon is added in the browser tree under each
folder item which contains GRASS location. Go to the folder grassdata and expand location alaska and
mapset demo.
You can load GRASS raster and vector layers like any other layer from the browser either by double click on layer
item or by dragging and dropping to map canvas or legend.
Truco: Cargando datos GRASS

If you dont see GRASS location item, verify in Help About Providers if GRASS vector provider is loaded.
17.3 Importar datos dentro de una UBICACIN DE GRASS medi-

ante arrastrar y soltar
This section gives an example of how to import raster and vector data into a GRASS mapset.
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1. In QGIS browser navigate to the mapset you want to import data into.
2. In QGIS browser find a layer you want to import to GRASS, note that you can open another instance of the
browser (Browser Panel (2)) if source data are too far from the mapset in the tree.
3. Drag a layer and drop it on the target mapset. The imported may take some time for larger layers, you will
see animated icon in front of new layer item until the import finishes.
Where raster data are in different CRS, they can be reprojected using an Approximate (fast) or Exact (precise)
transformation. If a link to the source raster is created (using r.external), the source data are in the same CRS and
the format is known to GDAL, the source data CRS will be used. You can set these options in the Browser tab in
Opciones GRASS.
If a source raster has more bands, a new GRASS map is created for each layer with .<band number> suffix and
group of all maps with icon is created. External rasters have a different icon .
17.4 Manejando datos GRASS en navegador QGIS
Copying maps: GRASS maps may be copied between mapsets within the same location using drag and
drop.
Deleting maps: Right click on a GRASS map and select Delete from context menu.
Renaming maps: Right click on a GRASS map and select Rename from context menu.
17.5 Opciones GRASS
GRASS options may be set in GRASS Options dialog, which can be opened by right clicking on the location or
mapset item in the browser and then choosing GRASS Options.
17.6 Iniciar el complemento GRASS
To use GRASS functionalities in QGIS, you must select and load the GRASS plugin using the Plugin Manager.
To do this, go to the menu Plugins Manage and Install Plugins..., select GRASS and click [OK].
The following main features are provided with the toolbar menu when you start the GRASS plugin:
Abrir directorio de mapas

Nuevo directorio de mapas

Cerrar directorio de mapas

Abrir herramientas de GRASS

Mostrar regin actual de GRASS

Opciones de GRASS

17.7 Abrir directorio de mapas
A GRASS mapset must be opened to get access to GRASS Tools in the plugin (the tools are disabled if no mapset
is open). You can open a mapset from the browser: right click on mapset item and then choose Open mapset from
context menu.
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17.8 LOCALIZACIN y DIRECTORIO DE MAPA GRASS
GRASS data are stored in a directory referred to as GISDBASE. This directory, often called grassdata, must
be created before you start working with the GRASS plugin in QGIS. Within this directory, the GRASS GIS
data are organized by projects stored in subdirectories called LOCATIONs. Each LOCATION is defined by its
coordinate system, map projection and geographical boundaries. Each LOCATION can have several MAPSETs
(subdirectories of the LOCATION) that are used to subdivide the project into different topics or subregions, or as
workspaces for individual team members (see Neteler & Mitasova 2008 in Referencias bibliogrficas y web). In
order to analyse vector and raster layers with GRASS modules, you generally have to import them into a GRASS
LOCATION. (This is not strictly true with the GRASS modules r.external and v.external you can
create read-only links to external GDAL/OGR-supported datasets without importing them. This is not the usual
way for beginners to work with GRASS, therefore this functionality will not be described here.)
Figure 17.1: Datos GRASS en la LOCALIZACIN alaska
17.9 Importar datos dentro de una LOCALIZACIN DE GRASS
See section Importar datos dentro de una UBICACIN DE GRASS mediante arrastrar y soltar to find how data
can be easily imported by dragging and dropping in the browser.
This section gives an example of how to import raster and vector data into the alaska GRASS LOCATION
provided by the QGIS Alaska dataset in traditional way, using standard GRASS modules. Therefore, we use the
landcover raster map landcover.img and the vector GML file lakes.gml from the QGIS Alaska dataset
(see Datos de ejemplo).
1. Inicie QGIS y asegrese que el complemento GRASS est cargado.
Abrir directorio de mapas

2. En la barra de herramientas de GRASS, haga clic en el icono para que aparezca el
asistente DIRECTORIO DE MAPA.
3. Seleccione como base de datos GRASS la carpeta grassdata en el conjunto de datos Alaska de QGIS,
como LOCALIZACIN alaska, como DIRECTORIO DE MAPA demo y haga clic en [Aceptar].

4. Ahora haga clic en el icono . El dilogo de la caja de herramientas de GRASS
(vea la seccin La caja de herramientas GRASS) aparece.
5. Para importar el mapa rster landcover.img, haga clic en el modulo r.in.gdal en la pestaa
rbol de mdulos. Este modulo GRASS le permite importar archivos rster GDAL-admitidos en un
LOCALIZACIN de GRASS. El dilogo del mdulo para que r.in.gdal aparezca.
6. Browse to the folder raster in the QGIS Alaska dataset and select the file landcover.img.
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7. Como nombre de salida del rster, defina landcover_grass y haga clic en [Ejecutar].
en la pestaa Salida, y vea el comando GRASS actualmente ejecutado r.in.gdal -o
input=/path/to/landcover.img output=landcover_grass.
8. Cuando dice Finalizado con xito, haga clic en [Ver salida]. La capa rster landcover_grass est
ahora importado en GRASS y se visualizar en el lienzo QGIS.
9. Para importar el archivo vector GML lakes.gml, haga clic en el modulo v.in.ogr en la pestaa r-
bol de mdulos. Este modulo GRASS le permite importar archivos vectoriales OGR-admitidos en una
LOCAZACIN de GRASS. El dilogo del modulo para que v.in.ogr aparezca.
10. Browse to the folder gml in the QGIS Alaska dataset and select the file lakes.gml as OGR file.
11. Como nombre de salida del vector, define lakes_grass y haga clic en [Ejecutar]. No tiene que pre-
ocuparse por las otras opciones en este ejemplo. En la pestaa Salida se ve el comando GRASS ejecutado
actualmente v.in.ogr -o dsn=/path/to/lakes.gml output=lakes\_grass.
12. Cuando dice Finalizado con xito, haga clic en [Ver salida]. La capa vectorial lakes_grass ahora es
importada a GRASS y se visualizar en el lienzo de QGIS.
17.9.1 Crear una nueva LOCALIZACIN GRASS
As an example, here is the sample GRASS LOCATION alaska, which is projected in the Albers Equal Area
projection using feet as units. This sample GRASS LOCATION alaska will be used for all examples and exer-
cises in the following GRASS-related sections. It is useful to download and install the dataset on your computer
(see Datos de ejemplo).
2. Visualize the alaska.shp shapefile (see section Cargando una capa desde archivo) from the QGIS
Alaska dataset (see Datos de ejemplo).
New mapset
3. In the GRASS toolbar, click on the icon to bring up the MAPSET wizard.
4. Seleccione un conjunto de datos GRASS existente (GISDBASE) la carpeta grassdata, o cree una para la
nueva LOCALIZACIN utilizando un administrador de archivos en su computadores. A continuacin haga
clic en [Siguiente].
5. We can use this wizard to create a new MAPSET within an existing LOCATION (see section Aadir un
nuevo DIRECTORIO DE MAPA) or to create a new LOCATION altogether. Select Create new location
(see figure_grass_location_2).
6. Escriba un nombre para la LOZALIZACIN usemos alaska y haga clic en [Siguiente].
7. Define the projection by clicking on the radio button Projection to enable the projection list.
8. We are using Albers Equal Area Alaska (feet) projection. Since we happen to know that it is represented
by the EPSG ID 2964, we enter it in the search box. (Note: If you want to repeat this process for another
CRS Status
LOCATION and projection and havent memorized the EPSG ID, click on the icon in the lower
right-hand corner of the status bar (see section Trabajar con Proyecciones)).
9. En Filtrar, inserte 2964 para seleccionar la proyeccin.
10. Clic [Siguiente].
11. To define the default region, we have to enter the LOCATION bounds in the north, south, east, and west
directions. Here, we simply click on the button [Set current QGIS extent], to apply the extent of the
loaded layer alaska.shp as the GRASS default region extent.
13. Tambin necesitamos definir un DIRECTORIO DE MAPA dentro de nuestra nueva LOCALIZACIN (esto
es necesario al crear una nueva LOCALIZACIN). Puede nombrarlo como quiera - nosotros usamos demo.
GRASS automticamente crea un DIRECTORIO DE MAPA especial llamado PERMANENT, designado

para almacenar los datos base para la proyeccin, su extensin espacial por defecto y sistema de coordenadas
definida (vea Neteler & Mitasova 2008 en Referencias bibliogrficas y web)
14. Revise el resumen para asegurarse que es correcto y haga clic en [Finalizar]
15. La nueva LOCALIZACIN, alaska, y los dos DIRECTORIO DE MAPAS, demo y PERMANENT,
son creados. El conjunto de trabajo abierto actualmente es demo, como se ha definido.
16. Tenga en cuenta que algunas de las herramientas en la barra de herramientas de GRASS que estaban inhab-
ilitadas ahora estn habilitadas.
Figure 17.2: Cree una nueva LOCALIZACIN GRASS o un nuevo DIRECTORIO DE MAPA en QGIS
Si eso pareca como una gran cantidad de pasos, en realidad no es tan malo y una forma muy rpida de crear
una LOCALIZACIN. La LOCALIZACIN alaska ahora est listo para la importacin de datos (vea la seccin
Importar datos dentro de una LOCALIZACIN DE GRASS). Tambin puede utilizar los datos ya existentes vec-
toriales y rster en el ejemplo LOCALIZACIN alaska de GRASS, incluido en el conjunto de datos Alaska de
QGIS Datos de ejemplo, ya pasar a la seccin El modelo de datos vectoriales de GRASS.
17.9.2 Aadir un nuevo DIRECTORIO DE MAPA
Un usuario slo tiene acceso de escritura a un DIRECTORIO DE MAPA GRASS que l o ella crearon. Esto
significa que adems de acceder a su propio DIRECTORIO DE MAPA, se pueden leer mapas de otros usuar-
ios DIRECTORIO DE MAPAS (y ellos pueden leer los tuyos), pero slo puede modificar o eliminar su propio
DIRECTORIO DE MAPA.
Todos los DIRECTORIO DE MAPAS incluyen un archivo WIND que almacena los valores de las coordenadas de
los lmites actuales y la resolucin rster actualmente seleccionado (vea Neteler & Mitasova 2008 en Referencias
bibliogrficas y web, y la seccin La herramienta de regin GRASS).
New mapset
2. In the GRASS toolbar, click on the icon to bring up the MAPSET wizard.
3. Seleccione la base de datos GRASS (GISDBASE) la carpeta grassdata con la LOCALIZACIN
alaska, donde queremos aadir otro DIRECTORIO DE MAPA llamado test.
5. Podemos utilizar el asistente para crear un nuevo DIRECTORIO DE MAPA dentro de un existente
LOCALIZACIN o cree una nueva LOCALIZACIN en conjunto. Haga clic en el botn Seleccionar
localizacin (vea figure_grass_location_2) y haga clic [Siguiente].
6. Introduzca el nombre text para el nuevo DIRECTORIO DE MAPA. A continuacin en el asistente, se ve
una lista de un existente DIRECTORIO DE MAPAS y titulares correspondientes.
7. Haga clic en [Siguiente], valide el resumen para asegurarse que todo es correcto y haga clic en [Finalizar]
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17.10 El modelo de datos vectoriales de GRASS
It is important to understand the GRASS vector data model prior to digitizing. In general, GRASS uses a topolog-
ical vector model. This means that areas are not represented as closed polygons, but by one or more boundaries.
A boundary between two adjacent areas is digitized only once, and it is shared by both areas. Boundaries must be
connected and closed without gaps. An area is identified (and labelled) by the centroid of the area.
Adems de los lmites y centroides, un mapa vectorial tambin puede contener puntos y lneas. Todos estos
elementos geomtricos se pueden mezclar en una vector y sern representados en diferentes denominadas capas
dentro de un mapa vectorial GRASS. Por lo que en GRASS, una capa no es un mapa vectorial o rster pero un
nivel dentro de una capa vectorial. Esto es importante para distinguir cuidadosamente. (aunque es imposible
mezclar elementos, es inusual e incluso en GRASS, slo se utiliza en casos especiales como anlisis de redes
vectoriales. Usualmente, se debe preferir almacenar diferentes elementos geomtricos en diferentes capas.)
Es posible almacenar varias capas en un conjunto de datos vectoriales. Por ejemplo, campos, bosques y lagos se
pueden almacenar en un vector. Un bosque y lago adyacente pueden compartir el mismo lmite, pero tienen tablas
de atributos separados. Tambin es posible adjuntar atributos a lmites. Un ejemplo podra ser el caso donde los
lmites entre un lago y un bosque es una carretera, por lo que puede tener una tabla de atributos diferente.
La capa del objeto espacial es definido por la capa dentro de GRASS. Capa es el nmero que define si hay ms
de una capa dentro del conjunto de datos (por ejemplo, si la geometra es bosque o lago). Por ahora, slo puede
ser un nmero. En el futuro, GRASS tambin implementara nombres como campos en la interfaz de usuario.
Los atributos se pueden almacenar dentro de la LOCALIZACIN en GRASS como dBase o SQLite3 o en tablas
de base de datos externa, por ejemplo, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.
Los atributos en la tabla de base de datos estn enlazadas a los elementos geomtricos utilizando un valor cate-
gora.
Categora (llave, ID) es un entero adjunto a la geometra primitiva, y se utiliza como el enlace a una columna
llave en la tabla de base de datos.
Truco: Aprendizaje del modelo vectorial GRASS

La mejor forma de aprender el modelo vectorial GRASS y sus capacidades es descargar uno de
los muchos tutoriales de GRASS donde el modelo vectorial se describe ms profundo. Vea
http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/manuals/ para ms informacin, libros y tutoriales en varios idiomas.
17.11 Crear una nueva capa vectorial GRASS
To create a new GRASS vector layer, select one of following items from mapset context menu in the browser:
Nueva Capa de Puntos
Nueva Capa de Lneas
New Polygon Layer
and enter a name in the dialog. A new vector map will be created and layer will be added to canvas and editing
started. Selecting type of the layer does not restrict geometry types which can be digitized in the vector map. In
GRASS, it is possible to organize all sorts of geometry types (point, line and polygon) in one vector map. The
type is only used to add the layer to the canvas, because QGIS requires a layer to have a specific type.
It is also possible to add layers to existing vector maps selecting one of the items described above from context
menu of existing vector map.
In GRASS, it is possible to organize all sorts of geometry types (point, line and area) in one layer, because GRASS
uses a topological vector model, so you dont need to select the geometry type when creating a new GRASS vector.
This is different from shapefile creation with QGIS, because shapefiles use the Simple Feature vector model (see
section Crear nueva capa vectorial).

17.12 Digitalizar y editar una capa vectorial GRASS
GRASS vector layers can be digitized using the standard QGIS digitizing tools. There are however some particu-
larities, which you should know about, due to
GRASS topological model versus QGIS simple feature
complejidad del modelo GRASS
multiple layers in single maps
multiple geometry types in single map
geometry sharing by multiple features from multiple layers
The particularities are discussed in the following sections.
Save, discard changes, undo, redo
Advertencia: All the changes done during editing are immediately written to vector map and related attribute
tables.
Changes are written after each operation, it is however, possible to do undo/redo or discard all changes when
closing editing. If undo or discard changes is used, original state is rewritten in vector map and attribute tables.
There are two main reasons for this behaviour:
It is the nature of GRASS vectors coming from conviction that user wants to do what he is doing and it is
better to have data saved when the work is suddenly interrupted (for example, blackout)
Necessity for effective editing of topological data is visualized information about topological correctness,
such information can only be acquired from GRASS vector map if changes are written to the map.
Barra de herramientas
The Digitizing Toolbar has some specific tools when a GRASS layer is edited:
Icono Herramienta Propsito
Nuevo punto Digitalizar un nuevo punto
Nueva lnea Digitalizar nueva lnea
Nuevo lmite Digitalizar nuevo borde
Nuevo centroide Digitalizar nuevo centroide (etiqueta de rea existente)
Nuevo Contorno Cerrado Digitalizar nuevo borde cerrado
Tabla de digitalizacin GRASS 1: Herramientas de digitalizacin GRASS
Truco: Digitalizando polgonos en GRASS

If you want to create a polygon in GRASS, you first digitize the boundary of the polygon. Then you add a centroid
(label point) into the closed boundary. The reason for this is that a topological vector model links the attribute
information of a polygon always to the centroid and not to the boundary.
Categora
Category, often called cat, is sort of ID. The name comes from times when GRASS vectors had only singly
attribute category. Category is used as a link between geometry and attributes. A single geometry may have
multiple categories and thus represent multiple features in different layers. Currently it is possible to assign only
one category per layer using QGIS editing tools. New features have automatically assigned new unique category,
except boundaries. Boundaries usually only form areas and do not represent linear features, it is however possible
to define attributes for a boundary later, for example in different layer.
New categories are always created only in currently being edited layer.
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It is not possible to assign more categories to geometry using QGIS editing, such data are properly represented as
multiple features, and individual features, even from different layers, may be deleted.
Atributos
Attributes of currently edited layer can only be modified. If the vector map contains more layers, features of other
layers will have all attributes set to <not editable (layer #)> to warn you that such attribute is not editable. The
reason is, that other layers may have and usually have different set of fields while QGIS only supports one fixed
set of fields per layer.
If a geometry primitive does not have a category assigned, a new unique category is automatically assigned and
new record in attribute table is created when an attribute of that geometry is changed.
Truco: If you want to do bulk update of attributes in table, for example using Field Calculator (Calculadora de
Campo), and there are features without category which you dont want to update (typically boundaries), you can
filter them out by setting Advanced Filter to cat is not null.
Editing style
The topological symbology is essential for effective editing of topological data. When editing starts, a specialized
GRASS Edit renderer is set on the layer automatically and original renderer is restored when editing is closed.
The style may be customized in layer properties Style tab. The style can also be stored in project file or in
separate file as any other style. If you customize the style, do not change its name, because it is used to reset the
style when editing is started again.
Truco: Do not save project file when the layer is edited, the layer would be stored with Edit Style which has no
meaning if layer is not edited.
The style is based on topological information which is temporarily added to attribute table as field topo_symbol.
The field is automatically removed when editing is closed.
Truco: Do not remove topo_symbol field from attribute table, that would make features invisible because the
renderer is based on that column.
Autoensamblado
To form an area, vertices of connected boundaries must have exactly the same coordinates. This can be achieved
using snapping tool only if canvas and vector map have the same CRS. Otherwise, due conversion from map
coordinates to canvas and back, the coordinate may become slightly different due to representation error and CRS
transformations.
Truco: Use layers CRS also for canvas when editing.
Limitaciones
Simultaneous editing of multiple layers within the same vector at the same time is not supported. This is mainly
due to the impossibility of handling multiple undo stacks for a single data source.
On Linux and Mac OSX only one GRASS layer can be edited at time. This is due to a bug in GRASS which
does not allow to close database drivers in random order. This is being solved with GRASS developers.
Truco: Editar permisos de GRASS

Debe ser el propietario del DIRECTORIO DE MAPA de GRASS que desee editar. Es imposible editar capas de
datos en un DIRECTORIO DE MAPA que no sea suyo, incluso si tiene permisos de escritura.

17.13 La herramienta de regin GRASS
La definicin de la regin (ajuste una ventana de trabajo espacial) en GRASS es importante para trabajar con
capas rster. Anlisis vectorial esta por defecto no limitado a cualquier definicin de regin definida. Pero todas
los rsters recin creados tendrn la extensin espacial y resolucin de la regin GRASS definida actualmente,
independientemente de su extensin y resolucin original. La regin GRASS actual es almacenada en el archivo
$LOCALIZACIN/$DIRECTORIO DE MAPA/WIND, y define los lmites norte, sur, este y oeste, nmero de
columnas y filas, resolucin espacial horizontal y vertical.
Es posible prender y apagar la visualizacin de la regin GRASS en el lienzo de QGIS utilizando el botn
Mostrar regin actual de GRASS
.
The region can be modified in Region tab in GRASS Tolls dock widget. Type in the new region bounds and
resolution, and click [Apply]. If you click on [Select the extent by dragging on canvas] you can select a new
region interactively with your mouse on the QGIS canvas dragging a rectangle.
El modulo GRASS g.region proporciona muchos ms parmetros para definir una extensin de regin apropi-
ada y resolucin para su anlisis rster. Se puede utilizar estos parmetros con la caja de herramientas GRASS,
descrito en la seccin La caja de herramientas GRASS.
17.14 La caja de herramientas GRASS
Abrir herramientas GRASS

La caja proporciona funcionalidades de modulo GRASS para trabajar con datos dentro
un LOCALIZACIN GRASS seleccionada y DIRECTORIO DE MAPA. Para utilizar la caja de herramientas
GRASS necesita abrir una LOCALIZACIN y DIRECTORIO DE MAPA que tiene permisos de escritura para
(normalmente se concede si ha creado el DIRECTORIO DE MAPA). Esto es necesario, porque las capas rster y
vector creadas durante anlisis necesitan estar escritos a la LOCALIZACIN y DIRECTORIO DE MAPA actual-
mente
Figure 17.3: GRASS Toolbox and Module Tree
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17.14.1 Trabajando con mdulos GRASS
La consola GRASS dentro de la caja de herramientas proporciona acceso a casi todo (ms de 300) los mdulos
GRASS en una interfaz de lnea de comando. Para ofrecer un entorno de trabajo ms fcil de usar, cerca de 200 de
los mdulos de GRASS disponibles y funcionalidades tambin son proporcionados por dilogos grficos dentro
de la caja de herramientas del complemento GRASS.
A complete list of GRASS modules available in the graphical Toolbox in QGIS version 2.14 is available in the
GRASS wiki at http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS-QGIS_relevant_module_list.
Tambin es posible personalizar el contenido de la caja de herramientas GRASS. Este procedimiento se describe
en la seccin Personalizar la caja de herramientas GRASS.
Como se muestra en figure_grass_toolbox_1, puede buscar el modulo GRASS apropiado utilizando las temticas
agrupadas rbol de mdulos o en la pestaa de bsqueda Lista de mdulos.
Al hacer clic en un icono de modulo grfico, una nueva pestaa se aadir al dilogo de Caja de herramientas,
proporciona tres nuevas sub-pestaas Opciones, Salida y Manual.
Opciones
The Options tab provides a simplified module dialog where you can usually select a raster or vector layer visualized
in the QGIS canvas and enter further module-specific parameters to run the module.
Figure 17.4: Opciones del mdulo de la caja de herramientas GRASS
The provided module parameters are often not complete to keep the dialog simple. If you want to use further
module parameters and flags, you need to start the GRASS shell and run the module in the command line.
A new feature since QGIS 1.8 is the support for a Show Advanced Options button below the simplified module
dialog in the Options tab. At the moment, it is only added to the module v.in.ascii as an example of use, but
it will probably be part of more or all modules in the GRASS Toolbox in future versions of QGIS. This allows you
to use the complete GRASS module options without the need to switch to the GRASS shell.
Salida
La pestaa Salida proporciona informacin acerca del estado de salida del mdulo. Cuando haga clic en botn
[Ejecutar], el mdulo cambia a la pestaa de Salida y ver informacin acerca del proceso de anlisis. Si todo
funciona bien finalmente ver un mensaje Finalizado con xito
Manual

Figure 17.5: Salida del mdulo de la caja de herramientas GRASS
Figure 17.6: Mdulo Manual de la caja de herramientas GRASS
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La pestaa Manual muestra la pgina de ayuda HTML del modulo GRASS. Se puede utilizar para comprobar
otros parmetros de los mdulos y las banderas o para obtener un conocimiento ms profundo acerca de la final-
idad del mdulo. Al final de cada pgina del manual del mdulo, se ven otros enlaces al ndice de ayuda
principal, al ndice temtico y al ndice completo. Estos enlaces proporcionar informacin de
ejemplo como el modulo g.manual.
Truco: Mostrar resultados inmediatamente

Si desea mostrar sus resultados de clculo inmediatamente en su lienzo de mapa, se puede utilizar el botn Ver
Salida en la parte inferior de la pestaa de mdulo.
17.14.2 Ejemplos del mdulo GRASS
Los siguientes ejemplos demostrarn el poder de algunos mdulos GRASS.
Crear curvas de nivel
El primer ejemplo crea un mapa de curvas de nivel vectoriales de un rster de elevacin (DEM). Aqu, se asume
que se tiene LOCALIZACIN Alaska configurado como se explica en la seccin Importar datos dentro de una
LOCALIZACIN DE GRASS.
Open mapset
First, open the location by clicking the button and choosing the Alaska location.

Ahora abra la caja de herramientas con el botn .
En la lista de categoras de herramientas, haga doble clic Rster Administracin de superficie Generar
curvas de nivel vectoriales.
Now a single click on the tool r.contour will open the tool dialog as explained above (see Trabajando con
mdulos GRASS).
In the Name of input raster map enter gtopo30.
Type into the Increment between Contour levels the value 100. (This will create contour lines at
intervals of 100 meters.)
Escriba en Nombre de salida del mapa vectorial el nombre ctour_100.
Haga clic en [Ejecutar] para iniciar el proceso. Espere varios momentos hasta que el mensaje
Finalizado con xito aparezca en la ventana de salida. A continuacin haga clic en [Ver Salida] y
[Cerrar].
Dado que esta es una regin grande, tomar un tiempo para mostrarla. Despus de que termine la presentacin,
puede abrir la ventana de propiedades de la capa para cambiar el color de lnea as el contorno aparece claramente
sobre el rster de elevacin, como en El Dialogo de las Propiedades del Vector.
El siguiente acercamiento a una pequea y montaosa rea en el centro de Alaska. Al acercarse, se puede observar
que las curvas de nivel tienen esquinas afiladas. GRASS ofrece la herramienta v.generalize para alterar ligera-
mente mapas vectoriales, manteniendo su forma general. La herramienta utiliza varios algoritmos diferentes con
propsitos diferentes. Algunos de los algoritmos (es decir, Douglas Peucker y Vertex Reduction) simplificar la
lnea mediante la eliminacin de algunos de los vrtices. El vector resultante se carga ms rpido. Este proceso es
til cuando se tiene un vector muy detallado, pero va a crear un mapa de escala muy pequea, por lo que el detalle
es innecesario.
Truco: La herramienta de simplificar

Tenga en cuenta que complemento fTools de QGIS tiene una herramienta :menuselection:Simplificar geometras
>que funciona slo con el algoritmo Douglas-Peuker v.generalize de GRASS.
Sin embargo, el proposito de este ejemplo es diferente. Las lneas de curvas de nivel creadas por r.contour
tiene ngulos agudos que deben ser suavizados. Entre el algoritmo v.generalize hay Chaikens, lo que hace

precisamente eso (tambin astillas de Hermite). Tenga en cuenta que estos algoritmos se pueden aadir vrtices
adicionales al vector, haciendo que se cargue ms lentamente
Abra la caja de herramientas GRASS y haga doble clic en las categoras Vectorial Desarrollar mapa
Generalizacin,
Compruebe que el vector ctour_100 aparece como el Nombre del vector de entrada.
De la lista de algoritmos, elija Chaikens. Deje todas las otras opciones en su predeterminado y de-
splasece hacia abajo a la ltima fila para ingresar en el campo Nombre del mapa vectorial de salida
ctour_100_smooth, y haga clic en [Ejecutar].
El proceso toma varios minutos. Una vez que aparece Finalizo con xito en la ventana de salida,
haga clic [Ver Salida] y a continuacin [Cerrar].
Se puede cambiar el color del vector para que se muestre claramente sobre el fondo del rster y para con-
trastar con las curvas de nivel originales. Se dar cuenta de que las nuevas curvas de nivel tienen esquinas
ms suaves que el original durante su estancia fiel a la original de forma general.
Figure 17.7: Mdulo GRASS v.generalize para suavizar un mapa vectorial
Truco: Otros usos de r.contour

El proceso descrito anteriormente se puede utilizar en otras situaciones equivalentes. Si tiene un mapa rster de
datos de precipitacin, por ejemplo, entonces el mismo mtodo se utilizar para crear un mapa vectorial de lneas
isoyetas (lluvia constante).
Crear un efecto sombreado de relieve 3-D
Varios mtodos se utilizan para mostrar capas de elevacin y da un efecto #-D a mapas. El uso de lneas de
curvas de nivel, como se mostro anteriormente, es un mtodo popular regularmente elejido para producir mapas
topolgicos. El efecto de sombreado se crea de un rster (elevacin) DEM calculando primero la pendiente y el
aspecto de cada celda, entonces simula la posicin del sol en el cielo y da un valor de reflectancia a cada celda. De
este modo se obtienen pendientes frente al sol iluminadas; las pendientes orientadas lejos del sol(en la sombra) se
oscurecen.
Comience este ejemplo cargando el rster de elevacin gtopo30. Inicie la caja de herramientas GRASS y
bajo la categora rster, haga doble clic para abrir Anlisis espacial Anlisis del terreno.
A continuacin haga clic en r.shaded.relief para abrir el mdulo.
Change the azimuth angle 270 to 315.
Ingrese gtopo30_shade para el nuevo rster de mapa de sombras y haga clic en [Ejecutar].

Cuando el proceso finalice, aada el rster de mapa de sombras al mapa. Debe verlo desplegado en escala
de grises.
Para ver ambos sombreados y los colores de la gtopo30 juntos, mueva el mapa de sombreado abajo del mapa
gtopo30 en la tabla de contenido, a continuacin abra la ventana Propiedades de gtopo30, cambie a la
pestaa de Transparencia y establezca su nivel de transparencia a cerca de 25%.
Ahora debe tener la elevacin gtopo30 con su mapa de color y ajuste de transparencia mostrado arriba el mapa
de sombras en escala de grises. Con el fin de ver los efectos visuales en el mapa de sombras, apague el mapa
gtopo30_shade, a continuacin, vuelva a encenderla.
Utilizar la consola de GRASS
The GRASS plugin in QGIS is designed for users who are new to GRASS and not familiar with all the modules
and options. As such, some modules in the Toolbox do not show all the options available, and some modules do
not appear at all. The GRASS shell (or console) gives the user access to those additional GRASS modules that
do not appear in the Toolbox tree, and also to some additional options to the modules that are in the Toolbox with
the simplest default parameters. This example demonstrates the use of an additional option in the r.shaded.relief
module that was shown above.
Figure 17.8: La consola de GRASS, mdulo r.shaded.relief
El modulo r.shaded.relief puede tomar un parmetro zmult, que multiplica los valores de elevacin relativas a
las unidades de las coordenadas X-Y por lo que el efecto de sombreado es incluso ms pronunciado.

Cargue el rster de elevacin gtopo30 como antes, a continuacin inicie la caja de herramientas GRASS
y haga clic en la consola GRASS. En la ventana de la consola, escriba el comando r.shaded.relief
map=gtopo30 shade=gtopo30_shade2 azimuth=315 zmult=3 y presione [Enter].
After the process finishes, shift to the Browse tab and double-click on the new gtopo30_shade2 raster
to display it in QGIS.
Como se explic anteriormente, mueva rster del relieve sombreado a bajo del rster gtopo30 en la tabla
de contenido, entonces valide la transparecia de la capa coloreada gtopo30. Debe ver que el efecto 3-D
destaca ms fuertemente comparada con el primer mapa de relieve sombreado.
Figure 17.9: Mostrar relieve sombreado creado con el mdulo de GRASS r.shaded.relief
Estadsticas de rster en un mapa vectorial
El siguiente ejemplo muestra como un mdulo GRASS puede agregar datos rster y aadir columnas de una
estadstica para cada polgono en un mapa vectorial.
De nuevo utilice los datos de Alaska, referirse a Importar datos dentro de una LOCALIZACIN DE GRASS
para importar los arboles de archivos shape del directorio shapefiles en GRASS.
Ahora un paso intermedio es necesario: los centroides se deben aadir al mapa de rboles importado para
que sea una zona de GRASS completa del vector (incluyendo ambos lmites y centroides).
De la caja de herramientas, elija Vectorial Desarrollar mapa -> Administrar objetos espaciales, y abra
el modulo v.centroids.
Introduzca como el Mapa vectorial de salida forest_areas y ejecute el mdulo.
Now load the forest_areas vector and display the types of forests - deciduous, evergreen, mixed - in
different colors: In the layer Properties window, Symbology tab, choose from Legend type Unique
value and set the Classification field to VEGDESC. (Refer to the explanation of the symbology tab in
Estilo de Menu of the vector section.)
A continuacin vuelva a abrir la caja de herramientas de GRASS y abra Vectorial Actualizacion vectorial
por otros mapas.
Haga clic en el modulo v.rast.stats. Ingrese gtopo30 y forest_areas.
Slo un parmetro ms es necesario: Ingrese Prefijo de columna elev, y haga clic en [Ejecutar]. Este es
una operacin pesada computacionalmente, que se ejecutar por un largo tiempo (probablemente ms de
dos horas).
Finalmente, abra la tabla de atributos forest_areas, y verifique que varias de las nuevas columnas se
han aadido, incluyendo elev_min, elev_max, elev_mean, etc., para cada polgono de bosque.

17.14.3 Personalizar la caja de herramientas GRASS
Casi todos los mdulos de GRASS se pueden aadir a la caja de herramientas de GRASS. Una interfaz XML se
proporciona para analizar los archivos XML muy sencillos que configuran la apariencia y los parmetros de los
mdulos dentro de la caja de herramientas.
Un ejemplo del archivo XML para generar el mdulo v.buffer (v.buffer.qgm) luce como esto:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE qgisgrassmodule SYSTEM "http://mrcc.com/qgisgrassmodule.dtd">
<qgisgrassmodule label="Vector buffer" module="v.buffer">

<option key="input" typeoption="type" layeroption="layer" />
<option key="buffer"/>
<option key="output" />
</qgisgrassmodule>
El analizador lee esta definicin y crea una nueva pestaa dentro de la caja de herramientas cuando
selecciona un modulo. Una descripcin ms detallada para aadir nuevos mdulos, cambie el grupo
de un modulo, etc., se puede encontrar en la wiki de QGIS en http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-
gis/wiki/Adding_New_Tools_to_the_GRASS_Toolbox.

CHAPTER 18
Entorno de trabajo de procesamiento de QGIS
18.1 Introduccin
Este captulo introduce al marco de procesamiento de QGIS, un entorno de geoprosesamiento que se puede utilizar
para llamar algoritmos nativos o de terceros de QGIS, haciendo su tarea de anlisis espacial ms productivo y fcil
de lograr.
En las siguientes secciones, revisaremos cmo usar los elementos grficos de este sistema y sacar el mximo
provecho de cada uno de ellos.
Hay cuatro elementos bsicos en el marco IUG, que se usa para ejecutar algoritmos para diferentes propsitos.
Elegir una u otra herramienta depender del tipo de anlisis que se va a realizar y de las caractersticas particulares
que cada usuario y proyecto. Todos ellos (a excepcin de la interfaz de procesamiento por lotes, lo que se llama
desde la caja de herramientas o el dilogo de ejecucin de algoritmos, como veremos ms delante) se puede
acceder desde el men Procesado. (Ver ms de cuatro entradas. Los restantes no se utilizan para ejecutar los
algoritmos y se explicarn ms adelante en este captulo.)
La caja de herramientas. El elemento principal de la IUG, se usa para ejecutar un solo algoritmo o grupo de
procesos sobre la base de ese algoritmo.
El modelador grfico. Varios algoritmos se pueden combinar graficamente usando el modelador para definir
un flujo de trabajo, creando un proceso individual que involucre varios subprocesos.
El administrador del historial. Todas las acciones que se llevan acabo mediante cualquiera de los elementos
mencionados se almacenan en un archivo de la historia y puede ser posteriormente producido usando el
administrador del historial.
La interfaz de procesamiento por lote. Esta interfaz permite que ejecute procesos por lote y automatizar la
ejecucin de un solo algoritmo a mltiples conjuntos de datos.
En las siguientes secciones, revisaremos cada uno de los elementos a detalle.
18.2 La caja de herramientas
La Caja de herramientas es el principal elemento de procesamiento de la interfaz grfica de usuario, y el que ms

se suele usar en el trabajo diario. Muestra un listado de todos los algoritmos disponibles agrupados en diferentes
bloques, y es el punto de acceso para ejecutarlos, bien hacindolo como un proceso nico o bien como un proceso
por lotes que realice varias ejecuciones del mismo algoritmo con diferentes conjuntos de entradas.
The toolbox contains all the available algorithms, divided into so-called Providers.
Providers can be (de)activated in the settings dialog. A label in the bottom part of the toolbox will remind you
of that whenever there are inactive providers. Use the link in the label to open the settings window and set up
providers. We will discuss the settings dialog later in this manual.
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Figure 18.1: Caja de Herramientas de Procesamiento
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Figure 18.2: Procesamiento del modelador
Figure 18.3: El historial del procesamiento
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Figure 18.4: Interfaz de procesamiento por lote
By default only, providers that do not rely on third-party applications (that is, those that only require QGIS el-
ements to be run) are active. ALgorithms requiring external applications might need additional configuration.
Configuring providers is explained in a later chapter in this manual.
En la parte superior de la caja de herramientas, hay una caja de texto. Para reducir el nmero de algoritmos que
se muestran en la caja de herramientas y que resulte ms fcil encontrar el que se necesita, se puede introducir
cualquier palabra o frase en esa caja de texto. Segn se va escribiendo, el nmero de algorimos que se muestra se
va reduciendo a slo aquellos que contienen el texto introducido en su nombre.
If there are algorithms that match your search but belong to a provider that is not active, an additional label will
be shown in the lower part of the toolbox.
If you click on the link in that label, the list of algorithms will also include those from inactive providers, which
will be shown in light gray. A link to active each inactive provider is also shown.
Para ejecutar un algoritmo, basta con hacer doble click sobre su nombre en la caja de herramientas.
18.2.1 El cuadro de dilogo de algoritmo
Once you double-click on the name of the algorithm that you want to execute, a dialog similar to that in the figure
below is shown (in this case, the dialog corresponds to the Polygon centroids algorithm).
This dialog is used to set the input values that the algorithm needs to be executed. It shows a list of input values
and configuration parameters to be set. It of course has a different content, depending on the requirements of the
algorithm to be executed, and is created automatically based on those requirements.
Aunque el nmero y el tipo de parmetro dependen de las caractersticas del algoritmo, la estructura es similar
para todos ellos. Los parmetros encontrados en la tabla pueden ser de uno de los siguientes tipos.
A raster layer, to select from a list of all such layers available (currently opened) in QGIS. The selector
contains as well a button on its right-hand side, to let you select filenames that represent layers currently not
loaded in QGIS.
A vector layer, to select from a list of all vector layers available in QGIS. Layers not loaded in QGIS can
be selected as well, as in the case of raster layers, but only if the algorithm does not require a table field
selected from the attributes table of the layer. In that case, only opened layers can be selected, since they
need to be open so as to retrieve the list of field names available.

Figure 18.5: Caja de Herramientas de Procesamiento

Figure 18.6: Processing Toolbox showing search results

Figure 18.7: Processing Toolbox showing search results

Figure 18.8: Parameters Dialog
Se ve un botn por cada selector de capa vectorial, como se muestra en la figura inferior.
Figure 18.9: Vector iterator button
Si el algoritmo contiene varios de ellos, ser capaz de cambiar cada uno de ellos. Si el botn correspondiente a
una entrada vectorial se cambia, el algoritmo ser ejecutado iterativamente en cada uno de sus elementos, en lugar
de slo una vez para toda la capa, produciendo mayor cantidad de salidas como veces que se ejecuta el algoritmo.
Esto permite la automatizacin del proceso cuando todas las caractersticas de una capa tienen que ser procesados
por separado.
A table, to select from a list of all available in QGIS. Non-spatial tables are loaded into QGIS like vector
layers, and in fact they are treated as such by the program. Currently, the list of available tables that you will
see when executing an algorithm that needs one of them is restricted to tables coming from files in dBase
(.dbf) or Comma-Separated Values (.csv) formats.
Una opcin, a elegir de una lista de seleccin de posibles opciones.
A numerical value, to be introduced in a text box. You will find a button by its side. Clicking on it, you
will see a dialog that allows you to enter a mathematical expression, so you can use it as a handy calculator.
Some useful variables related to data loaded into QGIS can be added to your expression, so you can select
a value derived from any of these variables, such as the cell size of a layer or the northernmost coordinate
of another one.
Un rango, con valores mnimo y mximo que se introducen en dos cuadros de texto.
Una cadena de texto, que se introduce en un cuadro de texto.
Un campo, a elegir desde la tabla de atributos de una capa vectorial o una tabla sencilla seleccionada en otro
parmetro.

Figure 18.10: Selector de Nmero
Un sistema de referencia de coordenadas. Que puede escribir el cdigo EPSG directamente en la caja de
texto, o seleccionarlo desde el dilogo SRC que aparece cuando al hacer clic sobre el botn del lado derecho
Una extensin que deber inscribirse por cuatro nmeros que representan sus lmites xmin, xmax, ymin,
ymax. Al hacer clic en el botn en la parte derecha del selector de valor, aparecer un men emergente, que
le dar dos opciones: para seleccionar el valor de una capa o la extensin de la lienzo actual, o para definirlo
arrastrando directamente sobre el lienzo del mapa.
Figure 18.11: Selector de extensin
Si se selecciona la primera opcin, se ver una ventana como la siguiente.
Figure 18.12: Lista de Extensin
Si se selecciona la segunda opcin, la ventana de parmetros se ocultar, para que se pueda definir el rectn-
gulo haciendo click y arrastrando dentro del lienzo. Una vez hecho esto, el cuadro de dilogo reaparecer,
con los valores correspondientes ya rellenos en en cuadro de texto.
A list of elements (whether raster layers, vector layers or tables), to select from the list of such layers
available in QGIS. To make the selection, click on the small button on the left side of the corresponding row
to see a dialog like the following one.

Figure 18.13: Arrastrar Extensin
Figure 18.14: Seleccin Mltiple

Una pequea tabla para que la edite el usuario. stas se usan para definir parmetros como tablas de
bsqueda o matrices de convolucin entre otros.
Click en el botn del lado derecho para ver la tabla y editar sus valores.
Figure 18.15: Tabla Fija
Dependiendo del algoritmo, el nmero de filas que pueden ser modificadas o no al utilizar los botones del
lado derecho de la ventana.
Along with the parameters tab, you will find another tab named Log. Information provided by the algorithm
during its execution is written in this tab, and allow you to track the execution and be aware and have more details
about the algorithm as it runs. Notice that not all algorithms write information to this tab, and many of them might
run silently without producing any output other than the final files.
On the right hand side of the dialog you wil find a short description of the algorithm, which will help you un-
derstand its purpose and its basic ideas. If such a description is not available, the description panel will not be
shown.
Some algorithms might have a more detailed help file, which might include description of every parameter it uses,
or examples. In that case, you will find a Help tab in the parameters dialog.
Un comentario sobre proyecciones
Algorithms that are run from the processing framework this is also true of most of the external applications
whose algorithms are exposed through it do not perform any reprojection on input layers and assume that all
of them are already in a common coordinate system and ready to be analyzed. Whenever you use more than one
layer as input to an algorithm, whether vector or raster, it is up to you to make sure that they are all in the same
coordinate system.
Note that, due to QGISs on-the-fly reprojecting capabilities, although two layers might seem to overlap and match,
that might not be true if their original coordinates are used without reprojecting them onto a common coordinate
system. That reprojection should be done manually, and then the resulting files should be used as input to the
algorithm. Also, note that the reprojection process can be performed with the algorithms that are available in the
processing framework itself.
By default, the parameters dialog will show a description of the CRS of each layer along with its name, making it
easy to select layers that share the same CRS to be used as input layers. If you do not want to see this additional
information, you can disable this functionality in the Processing settings dialog, unchecking the Show CRS option.
Si intenta ejecutar un algoritmo utilizando como entrada dos o ms capas con SRC diferentes, se mostrar un
dilogo de advertencia.

An se puede ejecutar el algoritmo, pero en la mayora de los casos se producirn resultados incorrectos, como
capas vacias debido a que las capas de entrada no se solapan.
18.2.2 Resultados generados por algoritmos
Los tipos de resultados que se pueden generar cor un algoritmo son los siguientes:
Una capa rster.
Una capa vectorial.
Una tabla
Un archivo HTML (usado para salidas de texto y salidas grficas).
These are all saved to disk, and the parameters table will contain a text box corresponding to each one of these
outputs, where you can type the output channel to use for saving it. An output channel contains the information
needed to save the resulting object somewhere. In the most usual case, you will save it to a file, but in the case of
vector layers, and when they are generated by native algorithms (algorithms not using external applications) you
can also save to a PostGIS or Spatialite database, or a memory layer.
To select an output channel, just click on the button on the right side of the text box, and you will see a small
context menu with the available options.
In the most usual case, you will select saving to a file. If you select that option, you will be prompted with a
save file dialog, where you can select the desired file path. Supported file extensions are shown in the file format
selector of the dialog, depending on the kind of output and the algorithm.
The format of the output is defined by the filename extension. The supported formats depend on what is supported
by the algorithm itself. To select a format, just select the corresponding file extension (or add it, if you are directly
typing the file path instead). If the extension of the file path you entered does not match any of the supported
formats, a default extension will be appended to the file path, and the file format corresponding to that extension
will be used to save the layer or table. Default extensions are .dbf for tables, .tif for raster layers and .shp
for vector layers. These can be modified in the setting dialog, selecting any other of the formats supported by
QGIS.
If you do not enter any filename in the output text box (or select the corresponding option in the context menu),
the result will be saved as a temporary file in the corresponding default file format, and it will be deleted once you
exit QGIS (take care with that, in case you save your project and it contains temporary layers).
Se puede establecer una carpeta predeterminada para objetos de datos de salida. Vaya al dilogo de configuracin
(se puede abrir desde el men Procesos), y en el grupo General, se encuentra un parmetro denominado: guil-
abel: Carpeta de salida. Esta carpeta de salida se utiliza como la ruta predeterminada en caso de que se escriba
simplemente un nombre de archivo sin ruta de acceso (es decir, myfile.shp) al ejecutar un algoritmo.
Al ejecutar un algoritmo que utiliza una capa vectorial en modo iterativo, la ruta del archivo introducido se utiliza
como la ruta de la base para todos los archivos generados, los cuales se denominan utilizando el nombre base y
aadiendo un nmero que representa el ndice de la iteracin. La extensin del archivo (y el formato) se utiliza
para todos los archivos generados.
Apart from raster layers and tables, algorithms also generate graphics and text as HTML files. These results are
shown at the end of the algorithm execution in a new dialog. This dialog will keep the results produced by any
algorithm during the current session, and can be shown at any time by selecting Processing Results viewer from
the QGIS main menu.
Some external applications might have files (with no particular extension restrictions) as output, but they do not
belong to any of the categories above. Those output files will not be processed by QGIS (opened or included into
the current QGIS project), since most of the time they correspond to file formats or elements not supported by
QGIS. This is, for instance, the case with LAS files used for LiDAR data. The files get created, but you wont see
anything new in your QGIS working session.
Para todos los otros tipos de salida, encontrar una casilla de verificacin que se puede utilizar para decirle al
algoritmo si se debe cargar el archivo una vez que se genera por el algoritmo o no. Por defecto, se abren todos los
archivos.

Optional outputs are not supported. That is, all outputs are created. However, you can uncheck the corresponding
checkbox if you are not interested in a given output, which essentially makes it behave like an optional output (in
other words, the layer is created anyway, but if you leave the text box empty, it will be saved to a temporary file
and deleted once you exit QGIS).
18.2.3 Configurar el entorno de trabajo de procesamiento
Como se ha mencionado, el men de configuracin permite el acceso a un nuevo dilogo donde se puede configurar
cmo funcionan los algoritmos. Los parmetros de configuracin estn estructurados en bloques separados que se
pueden seleccionar en la parte izquierda del cuadro de dilogo.
Along with the aforementioned Output folder entry, the General block contains parameters for setting the default
rendering style for output layers (that is, layers generated by using algorithms from any of the framework GUI
components). Just create the style you want using QGIS, save it to a file, and then enter the path to that file in the
settings so the algorithms can use it. Whenever a layer is loaded by SEXTANTE and added to the QGIS canvas,
it will be rendered with that style.
Los estilos de renderizado se pueden configurar individualmente para cada algoritmo y cada una de sus salidad.
Basta con hacer clic derecho en el nombre del algoritmo en la caja de herramientas y seleccionar Editar estilos de
renderizados para salidas. Aparecer un cuadro de dilogo como el mostrado a continuacin.
Figure 18.16: Estilos de Representacin
Seleccionar el archivo de estilo (.qml) que se desee para cada salida y presionar [Aceptar].
Otras parmetros de configuracin se en listan en el grupo General a continuacin:
Utilizar nombre de archivo como nombre de capa. El nombre de cada capa resultante creado por un al-
goritmo se define por el propio algoritmo. En algunos casos, un nombre fijo podra ser utilizado, lo que
significa que el mismo nombre de salida ser utilizada, no importa que capa de entrada se utiliza. En otros
casos, el nombre podra depender del nombre de la capa de entrada o algunos de los parmetros utilizados
para ejecutar el algoritmo. Si esta casilla de verificacin est marcada, el nombre se toma del nombre de
archivo de salida en su lugar. Tenga en cuenta que, si la salida se guarda en un archivo temporal, el nombre
de archivo de este suele ser largo y sin sentido, destinada a evitar la colisin con otros nombres de archivos
ya existentes.
Keep dialog open after running algorithm. Once an algorithm has finished execution and its output layers
are loaded into the QGIS project, the algorithm dialog is closed. If you want to keep it open (to run the
algorithm again with different parameters, or to better check the output that is written to the log tab), check
this option

Utilice slo objetos espaciales seleccionados. Si se selecciona esta opcin, cada vez que se utiliza una capa
vectorial como entrada para un algoritmo, slo se utilizan sus objetos espaciales seleccionados. Si la capa
no tiene elementos seleccionadas, se utilizarn todos los objetos.
:Archivo script pre-ejecucin y Archivo script post-ejecucin. Estos parmetros se refieren a scripts escritos
utilizando la funcionalidad de secuencias de comandos de procesamiento, y se explican en la seccin de
secuencias de comandos de cobertura y la consola.
Aparte del bloque General en el dilogo de configuracin, tambin encontrar un bloque para los proveedores de
algoritmo. Cada entrada en este bloque contiene un elemento :guilabel: Activar que se puede utilizar para hacer
que algoritmos aparezcan o no en la caja de herramientas. Adems, algunos proveedores de algoritmos tienen
sus propios elementos de configuracin, que explicaremos ms adelante en la cobertura de los proveedores de
algoritmos particulares.
18.3 Modelador grfico
El modelador grfico le permite crear modelos complejos usando una interfaz simple y fcil de usar. Cuando
trabajas con SIG, la mayora de los operaciones de anlisis no estn aislados, en cambio son parte de una cadena
de operaciones. Usando un modelador grfico, esa cadena de procesos se pueden envolver en un solo proceso,
para que sea mas conveniente de ejecutarlo como un solo proceso ms adelante en un conjunto diferente de las
entradas. Sin importar cuantos pasos o diferentes algoritmos estn involucrados, un modelo se ejecuta como un
solo algoritmo, as ahorrando tiempo y esfuerzo, especialmente para modelos mas grande.
El modelador puede ser abierto desde el menu de procesamiento
El modelador tiene un cambas funcional donde la estructura del modelo y el flujo de trabajo que representa se
puede ver. En la parte izquierda de la ventana, un panel con dos pestaas se pueden utilizar para agregar nuevos
elementos al modelo.
Figure 18.17: Modelador
Crear un modelo requiere dos pasos:

1. Definicin de entradas no necesarias. Estas entradas se agregaran a la ventana de parmetros, asi el

usuario puede poner sus valores cuando se ejecutan los modelos. El modelo en si es un algoritmo, asi la
ventana de parmetros de genera automticamente como pasa con todos los algoritmos disponibles en el
marco de referencia del procesador.
2. Definicin de un flujo de trabajo. Usando los datos entrantes de un modelo, el flujo de trabajo se define
por algoritmos adicionales y seleccionando como se utilizan las entradas o salidas generados por otros
almoritmos que ya estan en el modelo.
18.3.1 Definir entradas
El primer paso de crear un modelo es definir las entradas que se necesitan. Los siguientes elemenos se encuentran
en la pestaa en el lado izquierdo de la ventana de modelos.
Capa Raster
Capa Vector
Cadena
Campo de la tabla
Tabla
Extensin
NUmero
Boolean
Archivo
Haga doble clic en cualquiera de estos elementos, un dilogo se muestra para definir sus caractersticas. Depende
de los parmetros en si. EL dilogo podra contener slo un elemento bsico (la descripcin, que es la que el
usuario ver al ejecutar el modelo) o ms de ellos. Por ejemplo, al aadir un valor numrico, como se puede ver
en la siguiente figura, parte de la descripcin del parmetro, tiene que establecer un valor y un rango de valores
validos.
Figure 18.18: Parmetros del modelo
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Para cada entrada adicional, un nuevo elemento se agrega al canvas modelador.
Tambin puede aadir entradas al arrastrar el tipo de entrada de la lista y soltarlo en la vista del modelador, en la
posicin donde dese ubicarla.
18.3.2 Definicion del flujo de trabajo.
Una vez que se ha definido las entradas, es tiempo para definir los algoritmos que se les aplica. Los algoritmos
se peuden encontrar en la pestaa Algorithms , agupados de una manera parecida a como estan en la caja de
herramientas.
Para aadir un algoritmo a un modelo, haga doble clic en su nombre o arrastre y sultelo, al igual que se hace
cuando aade entradas. Un dilogo de ejecucin aparecer, con un contenido similar a una encontrada en el
panel de ejecucin que se muestra cuando ejecutan el algoritmo de la caja de herramientas. La que se muestra a
continuacin corresponde al algoritmo ndice de convergencia de SAGA.
Como se puede ver, existen algunas diferencias. En lugar de la caja de salida de archivo que se utiliza para
establecer la ruta del archivo para capas y tablas de salida, una caja de texto simple se utiliza aqu. Si la capa
generada por el algoritmo es slo un resultado temporal que ser utilizado como la entrada de otro algoritmo y
no debe ser mantenida como resultado final, simplemente no modificar ese cuadro de texto. No escribir nada en

l significa que el resultado es definitivo y el texto que se proporciona es la descripcin de la salida, que ser la
salida que el usuario ver cuando se ejecute el modelo.
Seleccionar el valor de cada parmetro tambin es un poco diferente, ya que hay diferencias importantes entre
contexto del modelador y de la caja de herramientas. Vamos a ver cmo introducir los valores para cada tipo de
parmetro
Las capas (rster o vectorial) y tablas. Estos se seleccionan de una lista, pero en este caso, los posibles
valores no son las capas o tablas actualmente cargadas en QGIS, sino la lista de modelos de entrada del tipo
correspondiente, u otras capas o tablas generadas por algoritmos ya aadidos al modelo.
Los valores numricos. Los valores literales se pueden introducir directamente en la caja de texto. Pero
esta caja de texto tambin es una lista que se puede utilizar para seleccionar cualquiera de las entradas de
valor numrico del modelo. En este caso, el parmetro tomar el valor introducido por el usuario cuando se
ejecuta el modelo.
Cadena. Como en el caso de valores numricos, cadenas literales se pueden escribir, o una cadena de entrada
se puede seleccionar.
Campo de tabla. Los campos de la tabla padre o capa no se pueden conocer en tiempo de diseo, ya
que dependen de la seleccin del usuario cada vez que el modelo es ejecutado. Para establecer el valor
de este parmetro, escriba el nombre de un campo directamente en la caja de texto, o utilice la lista para
seleccionar una entrada de campo de la tabla ya agregado al modelo. La validez del campo seleccionado
ser comprobada en tiempo de ejecucin.
En todos los casos, se encontrar un parmetro adicional llamado Algoritmos padres que no esta disponible cuando
llama al algoritmo de la caja de herramientas. Este parmetro permite definir el orden en que se ejecuten los
algoritmos definiendo explcitamente un algoritmo como padre de la actual, lo que obligar al padre a ser ejecutado
antes del actual.
Cuando se utiliza la salida de un algoritmo anterior como la entrada de su algoritmo, que establece de forma
implcita el algoritmo anterior como padre del actual (y coloca la flecha correspondiente en la vista del modelador).
Sin embargo, en algunos casos, un algoritmo puede depender de otro, incluso si no se utiliza ningn objeto de
salida de la misma (por ejemplo, un algoritmo que ejecuta una sentencia de SQL en una base de datos PostGIS y
otro que importa una capa en la misma base de datos) . En ese caso, basta con seleccionar el algoritmo anterior en
el parmetro Algoritmos padres y los dos pasos se ejecutarn en el orden correcto.

Una vez que a todos los parmetros se les han asignados valores validos, haga clic en [Aceptar] y el algoritmo
se aadir a la vista. Ser enlazado a todos los otros elementos en la vista, si los algoritmos o entradas, eso
proporciona objetos que se utilizan como entrada de ese algoritmo.
Los elementos se pueden arrastrar a una diferente posicin dentro de la vista, para cambiar la forma de la estructura
del modulo se muestra y hace ms claro e intuitivo. Enlaces entre los elementos se actualizan automticamente.
Se puede acercar y alejar utilizando la rueda del ratn.
Se puede correr su algoritmo en cualquier momento haciendo clic en el botn [Ejecutar]. Sin embargo, con el fin
de utilizar el algoritmo de la caja de texto, se tiene que guardar y cerrar el dilogo del modelador, para permitir
que la caja de herramientas actualice su contenido.
18.3.3 Guardar y cargar modelos.
Utilice el botn actual [Guardar] para guardar el modelo actual y el botn [Abrir] para abrir cualquier modelo
previamente guardado. Los modelos se guardan con la extensin .model. Si el modelo ha sido previamente
guardado desde la ventana del modelador, no se le pedir un nombre de archivo. Dado que ya existe un archivo
asociado con ese modelo, el mismo archivo se utilizar para guardar cualquier subsiguiente.
Antes de guardar un modelo, tienes que entrar el nombre y el grupo, utilizando las cajas de texto en la parte
superior de la ventana.
Los modelos guardados en la carpeta modelos (la carpeta predeterminada cuando se le pide un nombre de
archivo para guardar el modelo) aparecer en la caja de herramientas en la rama correspondiente. Cuando se
invoca la caja de herramientas, que busca en la carpeta modelos de archivos con la extensin .model y carga
los modelos que contienen. Puesto que un modelo es en s mismo un algoritmo, este se puede aadir a la caja de
herramientas al igual que cualquier otro algoritmo.
La carpeta de los modelos se puede configurar desde el dilogo Procesos, bajo el grupo Modelador.
Se puede cargar modelos desde la carpeta models que no solo aparece en la caja de herramientas sino tambien
en el arbol de argoritmos en la pestaa Algorithms de la ventana modeladora.
18.3.4 Editar un modelo.
Puedes editar un modelo que actualmente estar creando, redefiniendo el flujo de trabajo y la relacion entre los
algoritmos y las entradas que definen el modelo en si.
Si haces click derecho en un algoritmo en el cambas representado en el modelo, puedes ver el menu de contexto
parecido a lo siguiente:
Figure 18.22: Click derecho en el modelador
Seleccionando la opcin Remove va a causar que el algoritmo seleccionado se elimine. Un algoritmo se puede
eliminar solo si no hay otros algoritmas dependiendo de este. Eso es, si ninguna salida del algoritmo se utiliza en
uno diferente de salida. Si intentar elimiar el algoritmo donde hay dependencia, un mensaje de advertencia como
el que se ve abajo va a salir.
Seleccionando la opcin Editar mostrara los parmetros de dialogo del algoritmo, para que puedas cambiar las
entradas y los valores de los parmetros. No todos los elementos de entrada disponibles en le modelo van a
aparecer en el caso de entradas disponibles. Las capas o valores generados en pasos mas avanzados en el flujo de
trabajo por el modelo no van a estar disponibles si ellos causan una dependencia circular.

Figure 18.23: No se puede borrar el algoritmo
Seleccionar valores nuevos y luego hacer click en el boton de [OK] como es usual. Las conecciones entre ele-
mentos de modelos cambian de acuerdo con el ambas de modelar.
Un modelo se puede ejecutar parcialmente, desactivando algunos de sus algoritmos. Para hacer eso, seleccione
la opcin Desactivar en el men contextual que aparece cuando hace clic derecho en un elemento del algoritmo.
El algoritmo seleccionado, y todos los que estn en ella se mostrarn en gris y no se ejecutarn como parte del
modelo.
Figure 18.24: Modelo con algoritmos desactivados
Cuando haga clic en un algoritmo que no este activo, ver en su lugar una opcin del men Activar que puede
utilizar para activarlo de nuevo.
18.3.5 Editando archivos de ayuda y meta informacion de modelos
Puedes documentar tus modelos del modelador en si. Solo hacer click en el boton de **[Edit model help]* y un
dialogo paresido al siguiente va a aparecer.
Figure 18.25: Edicin de Ayuda

En el lado derecho, ver una pgina HTML simple, creado mediante la descripcin de los parmetros de entrada
y salidas del algoritmo, junto con algunos elementos adicionales como una descripcin general del modelo o su
autor. La primera vez que se abre el editor de ayuda, todas estas descripciones estn vacos, pero se pueden editar
utilizando los elementos en la parte izquierda del cuadro de dilogo. Seleccione un elemento en la parte superior
y luego escriba su descripcin en el cuadro de texto de abajo.
Modelo de ayuda se guarda como parte de un modelo en si.
18.3.6 Exportando un modelo como un script Python
Como veremos en un captulo posterior, los algoritmos de procesamiento pueden ser llamados desde la consola
de Python de QGIS y los nuevos algoritmos de procesamiento se pueden crear tambin utilizando Python. Una
forma rpida de crear un script Python es para crear un modelo y despus exportarlo como un archivo Python.
Para hacerlo, haga clic en el botn Exportar como script Python. Seleccione el archivo de salida en el dilogo de
seleccin de archivos y Procesamiento escribir en los comandos de Python que realiza las mismas operaciones
definidas en el modelo actual.
18.3.7 Acerca de algoritmos disponibles
Puede notar que algunos algoritmos que pueden ser ejecutados desde la caja de herramientas no aparecen en la
lista de algoritmos disponibles cuando se est diseando un modelo. Para ser incluidos en un modelo, un algoritmo
debe tener una semntica correcta, de modo que sea adecuadamente enlazado a los otros en el flujo de trabajo. Si
un algoritmo no tiene tal bien definida la semntica (por ejemplo, si el nmero de capas de salida no puede ser
conocido de antemano), entonces no es posible utilizarlo dentro de un modelo, y por lo tanto, no aparece en el
lista de algoritmos que se puede encontrar en el dilogo modelador.
Adems, se vern algunos algoritmos en el modelador que no se encuentran en la caja de herramientas. Estos
algoritmos estn destinados a ser utilizados exclusivamente como parte de un modelo, y que no son de inters
en un contexto diferente. El algoritmo de Calculadora es un ejemplo de ello. Es simplemente una calculadora
aritmtica simple que se puede utilizar para modificar valores numricos (introducidos por el usuario o generados
por algn otro algoritmo). Esta herramienta es muy til dentro de un modelo, pero fuera de ese contexto, no tiene
demasiado sentido.
18.4 La interfaz de procesamiento por lotes
18.4.1 Introduccin
Todos los algoritmos (incluyendo modelos) se pueden ejecutar como un proceso por lotes. Es decir, que se pueden
ejecutar utilizando no slo un nico conjunto de insumos, sino varios de ellos y ejecutar el algoritmo tantas veces
sea necesario. Esto es til al procesar grandes cantidades de datos, ya que no es necesario poner en marcha el
algoritmo muchas veces desde la caja de herramientas.
Para ejecutar un algoritmo como un proceso por lotes, haga clic en su nombre en la caja de herramientas y
seleccionar la opcin Ejecutar como proceso por lotes en el men emergente que aparecer.
Figure 18.26: Haga clic derecho en Procesamiento por lotes
Si tiene que ejecutar el dilogo del algoritmo abierto, tambin puede iniciar la interfaz de procesamiento por lotes
desde all, haga clic en el botn Ejecutar como proceso por lotes....

Figure 18.27: dilogo de procesamiento por lotes de algoritmo
18.4.2 La tabla de parmetros
La ejecucin de un proceso por lotes es similar a la realizacin de una sola ejecucin de un algoritmo. Los valores
de los parmetros tienen que ser definidos, pero en este caso no slo necesitan un valor nico para cada parmetro,
sino un conjunto de ellos en su lugar, una por cada vez que el algoritmo tiene que ser ejecutado. Los valores se
introducen mediante una tabla como la que se muestra a continuacin.
Cada lnea de esta tabla representa una sola ejecucin del algoritmo, y cada celda contiene el valor de uno de
los parmetros. Es similar al dilogo de los parmetros que se ve cuando se ejecuta un algoritmo de la caja de
herramientas, pero con una disposicin diferente.
Por defecto, la tabla contiene slo dos filas. Puede agregar o quitar filas utilizando los botones de la parte inferior
de la ventana.
Una vez que el tamao de la tabla se ha establecido, este tiene que ser llenado con los valores deseados.
18.4.3 Llenado de la tabla de parmetros
Para la mayora de los parmetros, establecen el valor es trivial. Slo tienes que escribir el valor o seleccionarlo
de la lista de opciones disponibles, dependiendo del tipo de parmetro.
Los nombres de archivo para los objetos de datos de entrada se introducen escribiendo directamente o, ms conve-
nientemente, al hacer clic en el botn en la parte derecha de la celda, que muestra un men contextual con
dos opciones: una para seleccin de capas actualmente abiertas y otra para seleccionar del sistema de archivos.
Esta segunda opcin, cuando seleccione, muestra un dilogo de seleccin de archivos tpico. Mltiples archivos
se pueden seleccionar a la vez. Si el parmetro de entrada representa un solo objeto de datos y varios archivos
se seleccionan, cada uno de ellos sern puestos en una fila separada, aadiendo otras nuevas si es necesario.
Si el parmetro representa una entrada mltiple, se aadirn todos los archivos seleccionados a una sola celda,
separados por punto y coma (;).
Identificadores de capa se pueden introducir directamente en el cuadro de texto del parmetro. Puede introducir la
ruta completa a un archivo o el nombre de una capa que est cargado actualmente en el proyecto de QGIS actual.
18.4. La interfaz de procesamiento por lotes 281

Figure 18.28: Procesamiento por Lotes
El nombre de la capa se resolver de forma automtica a su ruta de origen. Tenga en cuenta que, si varias capas
tienen el mismo nombre, esto podra causar resultados inesperados debido a la ambigedad.
Los objetos de datos de salida siempre se guardan en un archivo y, a diferencia de cuando se ejecuta un algoritmo
de la caja de herramientas, guardar en un archivo temporal o base de datos no est permitido. Puede escribir el
nombre directamente o utilizar el dilogo de selector de archivos que aparece al hacer clic en el botn que lo
acompaa.
Una ves que seleccione el archivo, un nuevo dilogo se mostrar para permitir la terminacin automtica de otras
celdas en la misma columna (mismo parmetro).
Figure 18.29: Guardar Procesamiento por lotes
Si se selecciona el valor por defecto (No autocompletar), se acaba de poner el nombre del archivo seleccionado
en la celda seleccionada de la tabla de parmetros. Si se selecciona cualquiera de las otras opciones, todas las
celdas debajo de la seleccionada ser automticamente llenado basado en un criterio definido. De esta manera, es
mucho ms fcil llenar la tabla, y el proceso por lotes se puede definir con menos esfuerzo.
El llenado automtico puede hacerse por simple adicin de los nmeros correlativos a la ruta del archivo selec-
cionado, o al aadir el valor de otro campo en la misma fila. Esto es particularmente til para nombrar a los objetos
de datos de salida de acuerdo con los de entrada.

Figure 18.30: Ruta de archivo de procesamiento por lotes
18.4.4 Ejecutar el proceso por lotes
Para ejecutar el proceso por lotes una vez que haya introducido todos los valores necesarios, simplemente haga
clic en [Aceptar]. El progreso de la tarea por lotes global se mostrar en la barra de progreso en la parte inferior
del dilogo
18.5 Utilizar algoritmos de procesamiento desde la consola
La consola permite a los usuarios avanzados incrementar su productividad y realizar operaciones complejas que
no se pueden realizar utilizando cualquiera de los otros elementos de la GUI del marco de procesamiento. Mod-
elos que involucran varios algoritmos se pueden definir mediante la interfaz de lnea de comandos y operaciones
adicionales tales como bucles y sentencias condicionales que se pueden aadir para crear flujos de trabajo ms
flexibles y potentes.
No hay una consola de procesos en QGIS, pero todos los comandos de procesamiento estn disponibles desde
la consola de Python integrada en QGIS. Eso significa que se pueden incorporar esos comandos en a consola de
trabajo y conectar algoritmos de procesos para todos los otros objetos espaciales (incluyendo los mtodos del API
de QGIS) disponibles a partir de all
El cdigo se puede ejecutar desde la consola de Python, incluso si no especifica ningn mtodo de procesamiento,
se puede convertir en un nuevo algoritmo que ms tarde puede llamar desde la caja de herramientas, el mode-
lador grfico o algn otro componente, tal como lo hace con cualquier otro algoritmo. De hecho, algunos de los
algoritmos que se pueden encontrar en la caja de herramientas son sencillas secuencias de comandos.
En esta seccin, veremos como utilizar algoritmos de procesado desde la consola de Python de QGIS, y tambin
cmo escribir algoritmos utilizando Python.
18.5.1 Invocando algoritmos desde la consola de Python
Lo primero que tiene que hacer es importar las funciones de procesamiento con la siguiente lnea:
>>> import processing
Now, there is basically just one (interesting) thing you can do with that from the console: execute an algorithm.
That is done using the runalg() method, which takes the name of the algorithm to execute as its first parameter,
and then a variable number of additional parameters depending on the requirements of the algorithm. So the first
thing you need to know is the name of the algorithm to execute. That is not the name you see in the toolbox, but
rather a unique commandline name. To find the right name for your algorithm, you can use the alglist()
method. Type the following line in your console:
>>> processing.alglist()
Veras algo como esto:

Accumulated Cost (Anisotropic)---------------->saga:accumulatedcost(anisotropic)
Accumulated Cost (Isotropic)------------------>saga:accumulatedcost(isotropic)
Add Coordinates to points--------------------->saga:addcoordinatestopoints
Add Grid Values to Points--------------------->saga:addgridvaluestopoints
Add Grid Values to Shapes--------------------->saga:addgridvaluestoshapes
Add Polygon Attributes to Points-------------->saga:addpolygonattributestopoints
Aggregate------------------------------------->saga:aggregate
Aggregate Point Observations------------------>saga:aggregatepointobservations
18.5. Utilizar algoritmos de procesamiento desde la consola 283

Aggregation Index----------------------------->saga:aggregationindex
Analytical Hierarchy Process------------------>saga:analyticalhierarchyprocess
Analytical Hillshading------------------------>saga:analyticalhillshading
Average With Mask 1--------------------------->saga:averagewithmask1
Average With Mask 2--------------------------->saga:averagewithmask2
Average With Thereshold 1--------------------->saga:averagewiththereshold1
B-Spline Approximation------------------------>saga:b-splineapproximation
...
Esa es una lista de todos los algoritmos disponibles, ordenada alfabticamente, junto con sus nombres de linea de
comandos correspondientes.
Puede utilizar una cadena como parmetro para este mtodo. En lugar de devolver la lista completa de algoritmos,
que slo mostrar aquellos que incluyen esa cadena. Si, por ejemplo, se busca un algoritmo para calcular la
pendiente de un DEM, el tipoalglist(slope) obtendr el siguiente resultado:
DTM Filter (slope-based)---------------------->saga:dtmfilter(slope-based)
Downslope Distance Gradient------------------->saga:downslopedistancegradient
Relative Heights and Slope Positions---------->saga:relativeheightsandslopepositions
Slope Length---------------------------------->saga:slopelength
Slope, Aspect, Curvature---------------------->saga:slopeaspectcurvature
Upslope Area---------------------------------->saga:upslopearea
Vegetation Index[slope based]----------------->saga:vegetationindex[slopebased]
El resultado podra cambiar dependiendo de los algoritmos que se tienen disponibles.

Ahora es ms fcil encontrar el algoritmo que se busca y el nombre de lnea de comando, en este caso
saga:slopeaspectcurvature.
Una vez que se conoce el nombre de lnea de comandos del algoritmo, el siguiente paso es determinar la sintaxis
correcta para ejecutarlo. Eso significa saber que parmetros se necesitan y el orden en el que tienen para pasarlos
cuando se llame al mtodo runalg(). Hay un mtodo para describir un algoritmo a detalle, que se puede utilizar
para obtener una lista de los parmetros que requiere un algoritmo y las salidas que va a generar. Para obtener
esta informacin, se puede utilizar el mtodo alghelp (name_of_the_algorithm). Utilice el nombre de
lnea de comandos del algoritmo, no el nombre descriptivo completo.
Llamar al mtodo con saga:slopeaspectcurvature como parmetro, se obtiene la siguiente descripcin:
>>> processing.alghelp("saga:slopeaspectcurvature")
ALGORITHM: Slope, Aspect, Curvature
ELEVATION <ParameterRaster>
METHOD <ParameterSelection>
SLOPE <OutputRaster>
ASPECT <OutputRaster>
CURV <OutputRaster>
HCURV <OutputRaster>
VCURV <OutputRaster>
Ahora se tiene todo lo necesario para ejecutar cualquier algoritmo. Como ya hemos mencionado, slo hay un solo
comando para ejecutar algoritmos: runalg(). Su sintaxis es la siguiente:
>>> processing.runalg(name_of_the_algorithm, param1, param2, ..., paramN,
Output1, Output2, ..., OutputN)
La lista de parmetros y salidas para aadir dependen del algoritmo que se desean ejecutar, y es exactamente la
lista que el mtodo alghelp() le da, en el mismo orden que se muestra.
Dependiendo del tipo de parmetro, los valores se introducen de manera diferente. La siguiente lista da una rpida
revisin de cmo introducir los valores para cada tipo de parmetro de entrada.
La capa rster, vectorial o tabla. Slo tiene que utilizar una cadena con el nombre que identifique los datos
del objeto a utilizar (el nombre que tiene en la tabla QGIS de contenido) o un nombre de archivo (Si no
abre la capa correspondiente, se abrir pero no se aadir al lienzo del mapa). Si tiene una instancia de un

objeto de QGIS que represente la capa, tambin puede pasarlo como parmetro. Si la entrada es opcional y
no quiere utilizar cualquier objeto de dato, utilice None.
Seleccin. Si un algoritmo tiene un parmetro de seleccin, el valor de ese parmetro debe ser intro-
ducido mediante un valor entero. Para conocer las opciones disponibles, se puede utilizar el comando
algoptions(), como se muestra en el siguiente ejemplo
>>> processing.algoptions("saga:slopeaspectcurvature")
METHOD(Method)
0 - [0] Maximum Slope (Travis et al. 1975)
1 - [1] Maximum Triangle Slope (Tarboton 1997)
2 - [2] Least Squares Fitted Plane (Horn 1981, Costa-Cabral & Burgess 1996)
3 - [3] Fit 2.Degree Polynom (Bauer, Rohdenburg, Bork 1985)
4 - [4] Fit 2.Degree Polynom (Heerdegen & Beran 1982)
5 - [5] Fit 2.Degree Polynom (Zevenbergen & Thorne 1987)
6 - [6] Fit 3.Degree Polynom (Haralick 1983)
En este caso, el algoritmo tiene uno de tales parmetros, con siete opciones. Tenga en cuenta que ordenar
en base cero.
La entrada mltiple. El valor es una cadena con descriptores de entrada separadas por punto y coma (;).
Como en el caso de capas individuales o tablas, cada descriptor de entrada se puede el nombre del objeto de
datos, o su ruta de archivo.
El campo de la tabla de XXX. Utilice una cadena con el nombre del campo a usar. Este parmetro es
sensible a maysculas y minsculas.
Tabla fija. Escribir la lista de todas las tablas de valores separadas por comas (,) y cerrar entre comillas
("). Los valores que empiezan en la fila superior y van de izquierda a derecha. Tambin se puede utilizar
un arreglo 2-D de valores que representen la tabla.
SRC. Introduzca el nmero del cdigo EPSG del SRC deseado.
Extensin. Se debe utilizar una cadena con valores de xmin, xmax, ymin y ymax separados por
comas (,).
Los parmetros boolean, archivo, cadena y numricos no necesitan alguna explicacin adicional.
Los parmetros de entrada tales como valores string, booleanos o numericos tienen valores predeterminados. Para
utilizarlos, especificar None en la entrada del parmetro correspondiente.
Para objetos de datos de salida, escriba la ruta del archivo que se utilizar para guardarlo, del mismo modo que se
hace desde la caja de herramientas. Si desea guardar el resultado a un archivo temporal, use None. La extensin
del archivo determina el formato de archivo. Si se ingresa la extensin no reconocida por el algoritmo, el formato
de archivo predeterminado par el tipo de salida se utilizar, y su extensin correspondiente anexa a la ruta del
archivo dado.
A diferencia de cuando un algoritmo se ejecuta desde la caja de herramientas, las salidas no se aaden a la vista
del mapa si se ejecuta el mismo algoritmo desde la consola de Python. Si desea aadir una salida a la vista del
mapa, tiene que hacerlo por si mismo despus de ejecutar el algoritmo. Para ello, puede utilizar los comandos de
la API QGIS, o, an ms fcil, utilice uno de los mtodos prcticos previstos para tales tareas.
El mtodo runalg regresa un diccionario con los nombres de salida (los que se muestran en la descripcin del
algoritmo) como llaves y la ruta del archivo de esas salidas como valores. Se pueden cargar esas capas al pasar las
rutas de archivo correspondientes al mtodo load().
18.5.2 Funciones adicionales para manipular datos
Adems de las funciones que se utilizan para llamar algoritmos, que importan el paquete procesos tambin
importar algunas funciones adicionales que hacen que sea ms fcil trabajar con datos, particularmente datos
vectoriales. Ellos son slo funciones de confort que envuelven algunas funciones del API de QGIS, por lo general
con una sintaxis menos compleja. Estas funciones se deben utilizar en el desarrollo de nuevos algoritmos, ya que
hacen que sea ms fcil de operar con datos de entrada.

Below is a list of some of these commands. More information can be found in the classes under the
processing/tools package, and also in the example scripts provided with QGIS.
getObject(obj): Regresa un objeto QGIS (una capa o tabla) del objeto pasado, que puede ser un
nombre de archivo o el nombre de un objeto en la lista de capas de QGIS.
values(layer, fields): Regresa los valores en la tabla de atributos de una capa vectorial, para los
campos pasados. Los campos se pueden pasar como nombres de campos o como indices de archivos de base
cero. Devuelve un diccionario de listas, con el identificador del campo pasado como llaves. Se considera la
seleccin existente.
features(layer): Devuelve un iterador sobre las caractersticas de una capa vectorial, considerando
la seleccin existente.
uniqueValues(layer, field): Devuelve una lista de valores nicos para un atributo dado. Los
atributos se pueden pasar como un nombre de campo o indice de campo de base cero. Se considera la
seleccin existente.
18.5.3 Crear scripts y ejecurarlos desde le Caja de Herramientas
Puede crear sus propios algoritmos escribiendo cdigo Python y aadiendo unas pocas lneas extras para sum-
inistrar informacin adicional necesaria para definir la semntica del algoritmo. Se puede encontrar en el men
guilabel:Crear nuevo script bajo el grupo Herramientas en el bloque de algoritmos Script de la caja de herramien-
tas. Haga doble clic en l para abrir el dilogo de edicin de script. Eso es donde debe escribir su cdigo. Guarde
el script en la carpeta scripts (la carpeta predeterminada cuando abre el dilogo del archivo guardado) con la
extensin .py automticamente crea el algoritmo correspondiente.
El nombre del algoritmo (el que podr ver en la caja de herramientas) se crea a partir del nombre de archivo, la
eliminacin su extensin y la sustitucin de guiones bajos con espacios en blanco.
Vamos a echar un vistazo a el siguiente cdigo, que calcula el ndice de Humedad topogrfica (TWI) directamente
de un DEM.
##dem=raster
##twi=output
ret_slope = processing.runalg("saga:slopeaspectcurvature", dem, 0, None,
None, None, None, None)
ret_area = processing.runalg("saga:catchmentarea(mass-fluxmethod)", dem,
0, False, False, False, False, None, None, None, None, None)
processing.runalg("saga:topographicwetnessindex(twi), ret_slope[SLOPE],
ret_area[AREA], None, 1, 0, twi)
Como puede ver, el calculo implica tres algoritmos, todos ellos provenientes de SAGA. El ltimo que calcula el
TWI, pero se necesita una capa de pendientes y una capa de acumulacin de flujo. No tenemos estas capas, pero
ya tenemos el DEM, podemos calcularlas llamando a los algoritmos SAGA correspondientes.
La parte del cdigo donde este procesamiento se lleva a cabo no es difcil de entender si ha ledo las secciones an-
teriores de este captulo. Las primeras lneas, sin embargo, necesitan alguna explicacin adicional. Proporcionan
la informacin que se necesita para convertir su cdigo en un algoritmo que se puede ejecutar desde cualquiera de
los componentes GUI, como la caja de herramientas o el modelador grfico.
Estas lneas comienzan con un doble smbolo de comentario en Python (##) y tiene la siguiente estructura:
[parameter_name]=[parameter_type] [optional_values]
Aqu esta una lista de todos los tipos de parmetros que se admiten en scripts de procesamiento, su sintaxis y
algunos ejemplos.
rster. Una capa rster.
vector. Una capa vectorial.
table. Una tabla.

nmero. Un valor numrico. Un valor por defecto debe ser proporcionado. Por ejemplo, depth=number
2.4.
string. Una cadena de texto. Como en el caso de valores numricos, por defecto se debe aadir un valor.
Por ejemplo, name=string Victor.
boolean. Un valor boolean. Aade True o False despus para establecer el valor predeterminado. Por
ejemplo, verbose=boolean True.
rster mltiple. Un conjunto de capas rster de entrada.
Vector mltiple. Un conjunto de capas vectoriales de entrada.
Campo. Un campo es la tabla de atributos de una capa vectorial. El nombre de la capa se tiene que aadir de-
spus de la etiqueta Campo. Por ejemplo, si ha declarado una vectorial de entrada con mylayer=vector,
podra utilizar myfield=field mylayer para aadir un campo de esa capa como parmetro.
folder. Una carpeta.
file. A nombre de archivo.
El nombre del parmetro es el nombre que se mostrar al usuario cuando ejecuta el algoritmo, y tambin el nombre
de variable a utilizar en la secuencia de cdigo. El valor introducido por el usuario para ese parmetro se asignar
a la variable con ese nombre.
Cuando muestra el nombre del parmetro al usuario, el nombre ser editado para mejorar su apariencia, en susti-
tucin de guiones bajos con espacios. As, por ejemplo, si desea que el usuario vea un parmetro llamado Un
valor numrico, puede utilizar el nombre de la variable A_numerical_value.
Los valores de capas y tablas son cadenas que contienen la ruta del archivo del objeto correspondiente. Para con-
vertirlos en un objeto QGIS, puede utilizar la funcin processing.getObjectFromUri(). Las mltiples
entradas tambin tienen un valor de cadena, que contiene las rutas de los archivos a todos los objetos selecciona-
dos, separados por punto y coma (;).
Las salidas estn definidas en una manera similar, utilizando los siguientes etiquetas:
rster de salida
vector de salida
tabla de salida
html de salida
archivo de salida
nmero de salida
texto de salida
El valor asignado a las variables de salida es siempre una cadena con una ruta de archivo. Corresponder a una
ruta de archivo temporal en caso de que el usuario no haya introducido ningn nombre de archivo de salida.
Cuando declare una salida, el algoritmo intentar agregarlo a QGIS una vez que este terminado. Esa es la razn,
por la cual el mtodo runalg() no carga las capas que produce, la capa final TWI ser cargada (utilizando el
caso de nuestro ejemplo anterior), ya que se guarda en el archivo introducido por el usuario, que es el valor de la
salida correspondiente.
No utilice el mtodo load() en sus algoritmos de script, sino slo cuando se trabaja con la lnea de la consola. Si
una capa es creada como salida de un algoritmo, debe ser declarada como tal. De lo contrario, usted no ser capaz
de utilizar correctamente el algoritmo en el modelador, ya que su sintaxis (segn la definicin de las etiquetas
explicadas anteriormente) no coincidir con lo que crea realmente el algoritmo.
Salidas ocultas (nmeros y cadenas) no tienen un valor. En cambio, tiene que asignar un valor a los mismos. Para
ello, basta con establecer el valor de una variable con el nombre que utiliz para declarar la salida. Por ejemplo,
si ha utilizado esta declaracin,
##average=output number

La siguiente linea establecer el valor de salida a 5:

average = 5
Adems de las etiquetas para los parmetros y resultados, tambin puede definir el grupo en las que se muestra el
algoritmo, utilizando la etiqueta grupo.
Si su algoritmo toma mucho tiempo para procesar, es una buen idea informar al usuario. Se tiene una global lla-
mada progreso disponible, con dos mtodos posibles: setText(text) y setPercentage(percent)
para modificar el texto y la barra de progreso.
Varios ejemplos son proporcionados. Por favor, consulte con ellos para ver ejemplos reales de cmo crear algorit-
mos utilizando las clases del marco de procesamiento. Haga clic derecho en cualquier script y seleccione Editar
script para editar su cdigo o slo para verlo.
18.5.4 Documentacin de las secuencias de comandos
Al igual que en el caso de los modelos, puede crear documentacin adicional para sus scripts, para explicar qu
hacen y como utilizarlos. En el dilogo de edicin de scripts, encontrar un botn [Editor de ayuda]. Haga clic
en l y le llevar al dilogo de editor de ayuda. Compruebe la seccin acerca del modelador grfico para conocer
ms sobre este dilogo y cmo utilizarlo.
Los archivos de ayuda se guardan en el mismo folder como el script mismo, aadiendo la extensin .help
al nombre del archivo. Tenga en cuenta que puede editar la ayuda de su script antes de guardarlo la primera
vez. Si despus cierra el dilogo de edicin de script sin guardarlo (es decir, descartarlo), el contenido de la
ayuda que escribi se perder. Si su script ya fue guardado y tiene asociado un nombre de archivo, se guardara
automticamente.
18.5.5 Pre y post-ejecucin de la secuencia de comandos hooks
Los scripts tambin pueden ser utilizados para establecer ganchos pre- y post ejecuciones, que se ejecutan antes y
despus de la ejecucin de un algoritmo. Esto se puede utilizar para automatizar tareas que deben realizarse cada
vez que se ejecuta un algoritmo.
La sintaxis es idntica a la que se ha explicado anteriormente, pero una variable global adicional llamada alg est
disponible, lo que representa el algoritmo que acaba de ser (o est a punto de ser) ejecutado.
En el grupo General del cuadro de dilogo de configuracin de procesamiento se encuentran dos entradas llamadas
Script preejecucin y el :guilabel: Script postejecucin donde el nombre de archivo de los scripts a ser ejecutados
en cada caso se pueden introducir.
18.6 El administrador del historial
18.6.1 El historial del procesamiento
Cada vez que ejecutas un algoritmo, la informacin acerca del proceso es almacenado en el administrador de la
historia. Junto con los parmetros usados, la fecha y hora de la ejecucin tambin se guardan.
De esta manera, es fcil rastrear y controlar todo el trabajo que se ha desarrollado usando la caja de herramientas
de procesado, y fcil reproducirlo.
El administrador del historial es un conjunto de entradas de registros agrupados de acuerdo a su fecha de ejecucin,
por lo que es ms fcil encontrar informacin sobre un algoritmo ejecutado en cualquier momento en particular.
Informacin del proceso se mantiene como una expresin de lnea de comandos, incluso si el algoritmo fue lanzado
desde la caja de herramientas. Esto hace que sea tambin til para aquellos que estn aprendiendo cmo utilizar la
interfaz de lnea de comandos, ya que se pueden llamar un algoritmo usando la caja de herramientas y compruebe
el administrados del historial para ver cmo ese mismo algoritmo podra ser llamado desde la lnea de comandos.

Figure 18.31: Historial
18.6. El administrador del historial 289

Parte de la navegacin por las entradas en el registro, tambin puede volver a ejecutar los procesos al hacer doble
clic en la entrada correspondiente.
18.6.2 El registro de procesamiento
El dilogo de historia solo contiene las llamadas de ejecucin, pero no la informacin producida por el algoritmo
cuando se ejecuta. Esa informacin se escribe en el registro de QGIS, en una pestaa Procesamiento
Los algoritmos de terceros se ejecutan normalmente llamando su interfaz de lnea de comandos, que se comunica
con el usuario va consola. Aunque la consola no se muestra, una copia completa de la misma se escribe en el
registro cada vez que ejecuta uno de esos algoritmos. Para evitar llenar el registro con esa informacin, se puede
desactivar para cada proveedor, buscando la opcin correspondiente en la entrada del proveedor de dilogo de
configuracin.
Algunos algoritmos, incluso si pueden producir un resultado con los datos de entrada dados , puede aadir comen-
tarios o informacin adicional al registro, si detectan problemas potenciales con los datos, con el fin de advertirle.
Asegrese de revisar esos mensajes en el registro si se esta teniendo resultados inesperados.
18.7 Escribir nuevos algoritmos de procesamiento como scripts

python
Puede crear sus propios algoritmos escribiendo el cdigo Python correspondiente y aadiendo algunas lneas
adicionales para suministrar la informacin adicional necesaria para definir la semntica del algoritmo. Puede
encontrar un men Crear nuevo script bajo el grupo Herramientas en el bloque de algoritmos Script de la caja
de herramientas. Haga doble clic en l para abrir el dilogo de edicin de script. Ah es donde se debe escribir
el cdigo. Guardar el script desde all en la carpeta scripts (el predeterminado cuando se abre el dilogo de
guardar archivo), con la extensin .py, crear automticamente el algoritmo correspondiente.
El nombre del algoritmo (el que podr ver en la caja de herramientas) se crea a partir del nombre de archivo,
elimine su extensin y sustituya los guiones bajos con espacios en blanco.
Vamos a tener el siguiente cdigo, que calcula el ndice de Humedad Topogrfico (TWI) directamente desde un
DEM
##dem=raster
##twi=output raster
ret_slope = processing.runalg("saga:slopeaspectcurvature", dem, 0, None,
None, None, None, None)
ret_area = processing.runalg("saga:catchmentarea", dem,
0, False, False, False, False, None, None, None, None, None)
processing.runalg("saga:topographicwetnessindextwi, ret_slope[SLOPE],
ret_area[AREA], None, 1, 0, twi)
Como se puede ver, se trata de 3 algoritmos, todos ellos procedentes de SAGA. El ltimo de ellos calcula el TWI,
pero necesita una capa de pendiente y una capa de acumulacin de flujo. Nosotros no tenemos estos, pero ya
tenemos el DEM, podemos calcularlos llamando a los algoritmos de SAGA correspondientes.
La parte del cdigo donde este procesamiento se lleva a cabo no es difcil de entender si has ledo el captulo
anterior. Las primeras lneas, sin embargo, necesitan una explicacin adicional. Proporcionan la informacin que
se necesita para convertir su cdigo en un algoritmo que se pueda ejecutar desde cualquiera de los componentes
GUI, como la caja de herramientas o el modelador grfico.
Estas lneas comienzan con un doble smbolo de comentario en Python (##) y tiene la siguiente estructura
[parameter_name]=[parameter_type] [optional_values]
Aqu esta una lista de todos los tipos de parmetros que se admiten en scripts de procesamiento, su sintaxis y
algunos ejemplos.
raster. Una capa rster

vector. Una capa vectorial

table. Una tabla
number. Un valor numrico. Un valor predeterminado debe ser proporcionado. Por ejemplo,
depth=number 2.4
string. Una cadena de texto. Como en el caso de los valores numricos, un valor predeterminado se debe
aadir. Por ejemplo, name=string Victor
longstring. Igual que el string, pero un cuadro de texto ms grande se mostrar, por lo que es ms
adecuado para cadenas largas, como para un script esperando un pequeo fragmento de cdigo.
boolean. Un valor boolean. Aade True o False despus para establecer el valor predeterminado. Por
ejemplo, verbose=boolean True.
multiple raster. Un conjunto de capas rster de entrada.
multiple vector. Un conjunto de capas vectoriales de entrada.
field. Un campo en la tabla de atruibutos de una capa vectorial. El nombre de la capa se tiene
que aadir despus de la etiqueta field. Por ejemplo, si ha declarado una vectorial de entrada con
mylayer=vector, podra utilizar myfield=field mylayer para aadir un campo de esa capa
como parmetro.
extent. Una extensin espacial definida por xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax
folder. Una carpeta
file. Un nombre de archivo
crs. Un Sistema de Referencia de Coordenadas
selection. Un men desplegable que permite al usuario seleccionar desde una lista prepoblada. Por
ejemplo units=selection sq_km;sq_miles;sq_degrees
name. Nombre del script. Este se desplegar como el nombre del algoritmo en la caja de herramientas de
procesado. Por ejemplo El nombre de mi algoritmo=name
group. EL nombre de la carpeta donde el script aparece en la caja de herramientas de procesado. Por
ejemplo, aadir Utils=groups poner el script dentro de la carpeta Utils, dentro del los Scripts.
El nombre del parmetro es el nombre que se mostrar al usuario cuando ejecute el algoritmo, y tambin el nombre
de la variable a utilizar en el cdigo del script. El valor introducido por el usuario para ese parmetro ser asignado
a una variable con ese nombre.
Cuando muestra el nombre del parmetro al usuario, el nombre ser editado para mejorar su apariencia, en susti-
tucin de guiones bajos con espacios. As, por ejemplo, si desea que el usuario vea un parmetro llamado Un
valor numrico, puede utilizar el nombre de la variable A_numerical_value.
Los valores de capas y tablas son cadenas que contienen la ruta del archivo del objeto correspondiente. Para con-
vertirlos en un objeto QGIS, puede utilizar la funcin processing.getObjectFromUri(). Las mltiples
entradas tambin tienen un valor de cadena, que contiene las rutas de los archivos a todos los objetos selecciona-
dos, separados por punto y coma (;).
Las salidas son definidas en una manera similar, utilizando las siguientes etiquetas:
rster de salida
vector de salida
tabla de salida
html de salida
archivo de salida
nmero de salida
texto de salida
Extensin de salida
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El valor asignado a las variables de salida es siempre una cadena con una ruta de archivo. Corresponder a una
ruta de archivo temporal en el caso de que el usuario no ha introducido ningn nombre de archivo de salida.
Adems de las etiquetas para los parmetros y resultados, tambin puede definir el grupo en las que se muestra el
algoritmo, utilizando la etiqueta group.
La ltima etiqueta que se puede utilizar en su cabecera guin es ##nomodeler. Utilice que cuando no quiere
que su algoritmo se muestra en la ventana modelador. Esto se debe utilizar para los algoritmos que no tienen una
sintaxis clara (por ejemplo, si el nmero de capas que se crearon no se conoce de antemano, en tiempo de diseo),
que los hacen inadecuados para el modelador grfico
18.8 Manipulacin de datos producidos por el algoritmo
Cuando se declara una representacin de salida, una capa (raster, vector o tabla), el algoritmo intentar agregarlo
a QGIS una vez que est terminado. Esa es la razn por la cual, aunque el mtodo runalg() no carga las capas
que produce, la capa final TWI se cargar, ya que se guarda en el archivo introducido por el usuario, que es el
valor de la salida correspondiente.
No utilice el mtodo load() en sus algoritmos de script, sino slo cuando se trabaja con la lnea de la consola.
Si se crea una capa como salida de un algoritmo, que debe ser declarada como tal. De lo contrario, usted no
ser capaz de utilizar correctamente el algoritmo en el modelador, ya que su sintaxis (segn la definicin de las
etiquetas se ha explicado anteriormente) no coincidir con lo que crea realmente el algoritmo.
Salidas ocultas (nmeros y cadenas) no tienen un valor. En cambio, es quien tiene que asignar un valor a los
mismos. Para ello, acaba de establecer el valor de una variable con el nombre que utiliz para declarar la salida.
Por ejemplo, si ha usado esta declaracin,
##average=output number
En la siguiente lnea se establezer el valor de la salida a 5:

average = 5
18.9 La comunicacin con el usuario
Si su algoritmo toma mucho tiempo para procesar, es una buen idea informar al usuario. Se tiene un nombre global
progreso disponible, con dos mtodos disponibles: setText(text) y setPercentage(percent)
para modificar el texto y la barra de progreso.
Si tiene informacin para proporcionar al usuario, no relacionada al progreso del algoritmo, se puede utilizar el
mtodo setInfo(text), tambin del objeto progreso.
Si su script tiene algn problema, la forma correcta de propagacin es plantear una excepcin de tipo
GeoAlgorithmExecutionException(). Se puede pasar un mensaje como argumento al constructor de la
excepcin. El procesamiento se har cargo de la manipulacin y comunicacin con el usuario, dependiendo desde
donde se este ejecutando el algoritmo (Caja de herramientas, modelador, consola Python...)
18.10 Documentando sus scripts
Al igual que en el caso de los modelos, se pueden crear documentacin adicional para su script, para explicar qu
hacen y cmo utilizarlos. En el dilogo de edicin de scripts, encontrar un botn ** [Ayudar en la edicin de
scripts] **. Haga clic en l y le llevar al cuadro de dilogo de edicin de ayuda. Compruebe el captulo sobre el
modelador grfica para saber ms acerca de este cuadro de dilogo y cmo usarlo.
Los archivos de ayuda se guardan en la misma capa como el script mismo, aadiendo la extensin .help al
nombre del archivo. Tenga en cuenta que puede editar la ayuda de su script antes de guardarlo la primera vez. Si
despus cierra el dilogo de edicin de script sin guardarlo (es decir, descartarlo), el contenido de la ayuda que

escribi se perder. Si su script ya fue guardado y tiene asociado un nombre de archivo, se guardara automtica-
mente.
18.11 Scripts de ejemplo
Varios ejemplos estn disponibles en la coleccin en lnea de scripts, que pueden acceder al seleccionarlo la
herramienta Obtener script de la coleccin de script en lnea bajo la entrada Scripts/herramientas en la caja de
herramientas.
Por favor, compruebe con ellos para ver ejemplos reales de cmo crear algoritmos que utilizan las clases de la
arquitectura de procesamiento. Puede hacer clic derecho sobre cualquier algoritmo de secuencia de comandos y
seleccione Editar script para editar su cdigo o simplemente para verlo.
18.12 Las mejores practivas al escribir scripts de algoritmos
Aqu esta un resumen rpido de ideas a considerar cuando crea su propio script de algoritmos y especialemente,
si se desea compartir con otros usuarios de QGIS. Siguiendo estas sencillas reglas asegurar la consistencia entre
los diferentes elementos de procesamiento, tales como la caja de herramientas, el modelador o la interfaz de
procesamiento por lotes.
No cargar la capa resultante. Deje al Procesamiento manejar sus resultados y cargue sus capas si es nece-
sario.
Declarar siempre las salidas de su algoritmo creado. Evitar cosas tales como declarar una salida y luego
usando el nombre de archivo de destino establecido para esa salida para crear una coleccin de ellos. Eso
romper la semntica correcta del algoritmo y har que sea imposible usar de forma segura en el modelador.
Si usted tiene que escribir un algoritmo as, asegrese de agregar la etiqueta ##nomodeler.
No mostrar cajas de mensaje o utilice algn elemento GUI desde el script. Si desea comunicarse con el
usuario, utilice el mtodo setInfo() o lance GeoAlgorithmExecutionException
Como una regla de oro, no olvide que su algoritmo puede ser ejecutado en un contexto que no sea la caja de
herramientas de procesamiento.
18.13 Pre y post ejecucin de ganchos de scripts
Los scripts tambin pueden ser utilizados para establecer ganchos pre y post ejecucin, que se ejecutan antes y
despus de un algoritmo. Esto se puede utilizar para automatizar tareas que deben realizarse cada vez que se
ejecuta un algoritmo.
La sintaxis es idntica a la que se ha explicado anteriormente, pero una variable global adicional llamada alg esta
disponible, lo que representa el algoritmo que acaba de ser (o esta a punto de ser) ejecutado.
En el grupo General del cuadro de dilogo de configuracin de procesamiento se encuentran dos entradas llamadas
Archivo de script de pre-ejecucin y el script :guilabel: Archivo script post-ejecucin donde el nombre de archivo
de los scripts que deben ejecutarse en cada caso se pueden introducir.
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18.14 Configurar aplicaciones externas
El entorno de procesamiento se puede extender el uso de aplicaciones adicionales. Actualmente, SAGA, GRASS,
OTB (Orfeo Toolbox) y R son reconocidos, junto con algunas otras aplicaciones de lnea de comandos que pro-
porcionan funcionalidades de anlisis de datos espaciales. Los algoritmos que dependen de una aplicacin externa
son administrados por su propio proveedor de algoritmos.
Esta seccin le mostrar cmo configurar el entorno de procesamiento para incluir estas aplicaciones adicionales,
y le explicar algunas de las caractersticas particulares de los algoritmos basados en ellos. Una vez que haya
configurado correctamente el sistema, usted ser capaz de ejecutar algoritmos externos de cualquier componente,
como la caja de herramientas o el modelador grfico, tal como lo hace con cualquier otro geoalgoritmo.
By default, all algorithms that rely on an external application not shipped with QGIS are not enabled. You can
enable them in the settings dialog. Make sure that the corresponding application is already installed in your
system.
18.14.1 Aclaracin para los usuarios de Windows
If you are not an advanced user and you are running QGIS on Windows, you might not be interested in reading
the rest of this chapter. Make sure you install QGIS in your system using the standalone installer. That will
automatically install SAGA, GRASS and OTB in your system and configure them so they can be run from QGIS.
All the algorithms from these providers will be ready to be run without needing any further configuration. If
installing through OSGeo4W application, make sure you select for installation SAGA, GRASS and OTB as well.
Si quiere saber ms sobre cmo funcionan estos proveedores, o si quiere utilizar algn algoritmo que no se en-
cuentre en la Caja de Herramientas simplificada (como los scripts de R), siga leyendo.
18.14.2 Aclaracin respecto a los formatos de archivos
When using an external software, opening a file in QGIS does not mean that it can be opened and processed as
well in that other software. In most cases, other software can read what you have opened in QGIS, but in some
cases, that might not be true. When using databases or uncommon file formats, whether for raster or vector layers,
problems might arise. If that happens, try to use well-known file formats that you are sure are understood by both
programs, and check the console output (in the history and log dialog) to know more about what is going wrong.
Utilizar capas raster de GRASS es, por ejemplo, uno de los casos en los que pueden existir problemas y no
completarse el trabajo si se invoca un algoritmo externo que use dicha capa como entrada. Por este motivo, estas
capas no aparecern como disponibles para los algoritmos.
You should, however, find no problems at all with vector layers, since QGIS automatically converts from the
original file format to one accepted by the external application before passing the layer to it. This adds extra
processing time, which might be significant if the layer has a large size, so do not be surprised if it takes more
time to process a layer from a DB connection than it does to process one of a similar size stored in a shapefile.
Providers not using external applications can process any layer that you can open in QGIS, since they open it for
analysis through QGIS.
Regarding output formats, all formats supported by QGIS as output can be used, both for raster and vector layers.
Some providers do not support certain formats, but all can export to common formats that can later be transformed
by QGIS automatically. As in the case of input layers, if this conversion is needed, that might increase the
processing time.
18.14.3 Nota referente a las seleccion de capas vectoriales
External applications may also be made aware of the selections that exist in vector layers within QGIS. However,
that requires rewriting all input vector layers, just as if they were originally in a format not supported by the
external application. Only when no selection exists, or the Use only selected features option is not enabled in the
processing general configuration, can a layer be directly passed to an external application.

En otros casos slo es necesario exportar un conjunto de caractersticas seleccionadas, lo que har que los tiempos
de ejecucin sean mayores.
18.14.4 SAGA
SAGA algorithms can be run from QGIS if you have SAGA installed in your system and you configure the pro-
cessing framework properly so it can find SAGA executables. In particular, the SAGA command-line executable
is needed to run SAGA algorithms.
If you are running Windows, both the stand-alone installer and the OSGeo4W installer include SAGA along with
QGIS, and the path is automatically configured, so there is no need to do anything else.
If you have installed SAGA yourself and your QGIS installer did not include it, the path to the SAGA executable
must be configured. To do this, open the configuration dialog. In the SAGA block, you will find a setting named
SAGA Folder. Enter the path to the folder where SAGA is installed. Close the configuration dialog, and now you
are ready to run SAGA algorithms from QGIS.
If you are running Linux, SAGA binaries are not included with Processing, so you have to download and install
the software yourself. Please check the SAGA website for more information.
In this case, there is no need to configure the path to the SAGA executable, and you will not see those folder entries.
Instead, you must make sure that SAGA is properly installed and its folder is added to the PATH environment
variable. Just open a console and type saga_cmd to check that the system can find where the SAGA binaries are
located.
Sobre las limitaciones del sistema de cuadrcula de SAGA
Most SAGA algorithms that require several input raster layers require them to have the same grid system. That is,
they must cover the same geographic area and have the same cell size, so their corresponding grids match. When
calling SAGA algorithms from QGIS, you can use any layer, regardless of its cell size and extent. When multiple
raster layers are used as input for a SAGA algorithm, QGIS resamples them to a common grid system and then
passes them to SAGA (unless the SAGA algorithm can operate with layers from different grid systems).
La definicin de este sistema de cuadrcula comn es controlado por el usuario, y se encontrar varios parmetros
en el grupo SAGA de la ventana de configuracin para hacerlo. Hay dos formas de establecer el sistema de
cuadrcula de destino.
Establecerlo manualmente. se define la extensin estableciendo los valores de los siguientes parmetros:
Resampling min X
Resampling max X
Resampling min Y
Resampling max Y
Resampling cellsize
Notice that QGIS will resample input layers to that extent, even if they do not overlap with it.
Ajuste de forma automtica a partir de capas de entrada. Para seleccionar esta opcin, simplemente marque
la opcin Utilizar el sistema de cuadrcula mnima para remuestreo. Todos los dems ajustes se ignoran y
la medida mnima que cubre todas las capas de entrada que se utilizarn. El tamao de celda de la capa de
destino es el mximo de todos los tamaos celulares de las capas de entrada.
Para los algoritmos que no utilizan mltiples capas raster, o para aquellos que no necesitan un nico sistema de
cuadrcula de entrada, no se realizar un remuestreo antes de invocar SAG y dichos parmetros no son utilizados.
Limitaciones para las capas multibanda
A diferencia de QGIS, SAGA no tiene soporte para capas multibanda. Si desea utilizar una capa multibanda (como
un RGB o imagen multiespectral), primero hay que dividirlo en imgenes de un sola banda. Para ello, se puede
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utilizar el algoritmo imagen SAGA/Grid - Herramientas/Dividir (que crea tres imgenes de una imagen RGB) o
el algoritmo banda SAGA/Grid - Herramientas / Extracto (para extraer una sola banda).
Limitaciones en el tamao de celda
SAGA asume que las capas rster tienen el mismo tamao de celda en el eje X y Y. Si se est trabajando con
una capa con diferentes valores para el tamao de celda horizontal y vertical, es posible que obtenga resultados
inesperados. En este caso, se aadir una advertencia al registro de procesamiento, lo que indica que una capa de
entrada podra no ser adecuada para ser procesada por SAGA.
Registro
When QGIS calls SAGA, it does so using its command-line interface, thus passing a set of commands to perform
all the required operations. SAGA shows its progress by writing information to the console, which includes the
percentage of processing already done, along with additional content. This output is filtered and used to update
the progress bar while the algorithm is running.
Both the commands sent by QGIS and the additional information printed by SAGA can be logged along with other
processing log messages, and you might find them useful to track in detail what is going on when QGIS runs a
SAGA algorithm. You will find two settings, namely Log console output and Log execution commands, to activate
that logging mechanism.
La mayora del resto de proveedores que utilizan una aplicacin externa y la invocan a travs de la lnea de
comandos tienen opciones similares, de forma que las podr encontrar tambin en otros lugares de la lista de
ajustes de procesamiento.
18.14.5 R. Creating R scripts
R integration in QGIS is different from that of SAGA in that there is not a predefined set of algorithms you can run
(except for a few examples). Instead, you should write your scripts and call R commands, much like you would do
from R, and in a very similar manner to what we saw in the section dedicated to processing scripts. This section
shows you the syntax to use to call those R commands from QGIS and how to use QGIS objects (layers, tables)
in them.
The first thing you have to do, as we saw in the case of SAGA, is to tell QGIS where your R binaries are located.
You can do this using the R folder entry in the processing configuration dialog. Once you have set that parameter,
you can start creating and executing your own R scripts.
Nota: for Windows user, usually the R executable file is in the C:Program FilesRR-3.2 folder. Add just
the folder and NOT the binary!
De nuevo, esto es diferente en Linux, dnde slo hay que asegurarse de que el directorio de R est correctamente
incluido en la variable de entorno PATH. Si R puede iniciarse simplemente escribiendo R en una consola, entonces
la configuracin es correcta.
To add a new algorithm that calls an R function (or a more complex R script that you have developed and you
would like to have available from QGIS), you have to create a script file that tells the processing framework how
to perform that operation and the corresponding R commands to do so.
Los archivos de script de R tienen la extensin .rsx, y crearlos es bastante sencillo si slo tiene un conocimiento
bsico de la sintaxis y script de R. Deben ser almacenados en la carpeta de scripts de R. Se puede establecer esta
carpeta en el grupo de ajustes R (disponible desde el dilogo de Configuracin de procesamiento), al igual que se
hace con la carpeta para scripts de procesamiento regular.
Lets have a look at a very simple script file, which calls the R method spsample to create a random grid within
the boundary of the polygons in a given polygon layer. This method belongs to the maptools package. Since
almost all the algorithms that you might like to incorporate into QGIS will use or generate spatial data, knowledge
of spatial packages like maptools and, especially, sp, is mandatory.

##polyg=vector
##numpoints=number 10
##output=output vector
##sp=group
pts=spsample(polyg,numpoints,type="random")
output=SpatialPointsDataFrame(pts, as.data.frame(pts))
The first lines, which start with a double Python comment sign (##), tell QGIS the inputs of the algorithm de-
scribed in the file and the outputs that it will generate. They work with exactly the same syntax as the Processing
scripts that we have already seen, so they will not be described here again.
Please have a look at the R Intro and the R Syntax Training Manual Chapters to have more information on how to
write your own R scripts-
When you declare an input parameter, QGIS uses that information for two things: creating the user interface to
ask the user for the value of that parameter and creating a corresponding R variable that can later be used as input
for R commands.
In the above example, we are declaring an input of type vector named polyg. When executing the algorithm,
QGIS will open in R the layer selected by the user and store it in a variable also named polyg. So, the name of
a parameter is also the name of the variable that we can use in R for accessing the value of that parameter (thus,
you should avoid using reserved R words as parameter names).
Spatial elements such as vector and raster layers are read using the readOGR() and brick() commands (you
do not have to worry about adding those commands to your description file QGIS will do it), and they are stored
as Spatial*DataFrame objects. Table fields are stored as strings containing the name of the selected field.
Las tablas se abren con el comando read.csv(). Sin una tabla introducida por el usuario no esta en formato
CSV, ser convertir antes de importarlo en R.
Adems, los rster se pueden leer con el comando readGDAL() en lugar de brick() utilizando el
##usereadgdal.
If you are an advanced user and do not want QGIS to create the object representing the layer, you can use the
##passfilenames tag to indicate that you prefer a string with the filename instead. In this case, it is up to you
to open the file before performing any operation on the data it contains.
Con la informacin anterior, se puede comprender la primera lnea de nuestro primer script de ejemplo (la primera
lnea que no comienza con un comentario de Python).
pts=spsample(polyg,numpoints,type="random")
La variable polygon ya contiene un objeto SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, por lo que se puede utilizar para
llamar al mtodo spsample, al igual que numpoints, que indica el nmero de puntos a aadir a la rejilla de
ejemplo creada.
Como hemos declarado una salida de tipo vectorial llamada salida, tenemos que crear una vari-
able llamada salida y almacenar un objeto Spatial*DataFrame en ella (en este caso, un
SpatialPointsDataFrame). Se puede utilizar cualquier nombre para sus variables intermedias. Slo
asegrese de que la variable almacena su resultado final y que tiene el mismo nombre que utiliz al declararla, y
que contiene un valor adecuado.
In this case, the result obtained from the spsample method has to be converted explicitly into a
SpatialPointsDataFrame object, since it is itself an object of class ppp, which is not a suitable class
to be returned to QGIS.
If your algorithm generates raster layers, the way they are saved will depend on whether or not you have used the
##dontuserasterpackage option. If you have used it, layers are saved using the writeGDAL() method.
If not, the writeRaster() method from the raster package will be used.
If you have used the ##passfilenames option, outputs are generated using the raster package (with
writeRaster()), even though it is not used for the inputs.
Si el algoritmo no genera ninguna capa, sino ms bien en su lugar regresa un texto en la consola, tiene que indicar
lo que desea que la consola mostrar una vez finalizada la ejecucin. Para ello, basta con iniciar la lnea de

comandos que producen los resultados que desea imprimir con el signo > (mayor). La salida de todas las otras
lneas no se mostrar. Por ejemplo, aqu est el archivo de descripcin de un algoritmo que realiza una prueba
normalmente en un determinado campo (columna) de los atributos de una capa vectorial:
##layer=vector
##field=field layer
##nortest=group
library(nortest)
>lillie.test(layer[[field]])
The output of the last line is printed, but the output of the first is not (and neither are the outputs from other
command lines added automatically by QGIS).
Si su algoritmo crea algn tipo de grficos (utilizando el mtodo plot()), aada la siguiente lnea:
##showplots
This will cause QGIS to redirect all R graphical outputs to a temporary file, which will be opened once R execution
has finished.
Tanto los resultados grficos como de consola, se mostrar en el gesto de resultados de procesamiento.
For more information, please check the script files provided with Processing. Most of them are rather simple and
will greatly help you understand how to create your own scripts.
Nota: rgdal and raster libraries are loaded by default, so you do not have to add the corresponding
library() commands (you just have to make sure that those two packages are installed in your R dis-
tribution). However, other additional libraries that you might need have to be explicitly loaded by typing,
library(ggplot2). If the package is not already installed on your machine, Processing will download and
install it. In this way the package will be also available in R Standalone. Be aware that if the package has to be
downloaded, the first time you run the script it might take a long time.
18.14.6 GRASS
Configurar GRASS no es muy diferente de la configuracin de SAGA. En primer lugar, la ruta de la carpeta
GRASS debe ser definido, pero solo si se ejecuta en Windows. Adicionalmente, un interprete de comandos
(usualmente msys.exe, que se puede encontrar en la mayora de distribuciones GRASS para Windows) tiene
que ser definido y establecer la ruta tambin.
Por defecto, el marco de procesamiento intenta configurar el conector de GRASS para utilizar la distribucin
GRASS que se incluye junto con QGIS. Esto debera funcionar sin problemas en la mayora de los sistemas, pero
si tiene problemas, puede que tenga que configurar el conector GRASS manualmente. Adems, si usted desea
utilizar una instalacin diferente de GRASS, puede cambiar esta configuracin y seleccionar la carpeta donde est
instalada la otra versin. GRASS 6.4 es necesaria para que los algoritmos funcione correctamente.
Si se utiliza Linux, hay que asegurarse de que GRASS est correctamente instalado y que se puede ejecutar sin
problemas desde una consola.
Los algoritmos de GRASS utilizan una regin para clculos. Esta regin se puede definir manualmente utilizando
valores similares a los encontrados en la configuracin de SAGA, o automticamente tomara la extensin mnima
que cubre todas las capas de entrada utilizadas para ejecutar el algoritmo cada vez. Si el ltimo enfoque es
el comportamiento que prefiere, simplemente marque la opcin Utilizar la regin de cobertura mnima en los
parmetros de configuracin de GRASS.
18.14.7 GDAL
No additional configuration is needed to run GDAL algorithms. Since they are already incorporated into QGIS,
the algorithms can infer their configuration from it.

18.14.8 Caja de Herramientas de Orfeo
Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) algorithms can be run from QGIS if you have OTB installed in your system and you have
configured QGIS properly, so it can find all necessary files (command-line tools and libraries).
As in the case of SAGA, OTB binaries are included in the stand-alone installer for Windows, but they are not
included if you are running Linux, so you have to download and install the software yourself. Please check the
OTB website for more information.
Once OTB is installed, start QGIS, open the processing configuration dialog and configure the OTB algorithm
provider. In the Orfeo Toolbox (image analysis) block, you will find all settings related to OTB. First, ensure that
algorithms are enabled.
Entonces, configurar la ruta al directorio donde las aplicaciones de lnea de comandos y las libreras de OTB se
encuentran instaladas:
Normalmente, el directorio de aplicaciones de OTB apunta a /usr/lib/otb/applications y el directorio
con los programas de lnea de comandos de OTB es /usr/bin.
If you use any of the installers that include OTB, such as OSGeo4W, there is no need for further con-
figuration. Processing will detect the path automatically and will not show the corresponding configuration
entries. Otherwise, fill the OTB applications folder and OTB command line tools folder parameters with the
to the corresponding values for your installation.
18.14.9 TauDEM
TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) is a tools for the extraction and analysis of hydrolog-
ical information from Digital Elevation Models (DEM). TauDEM can be used from QGIS if you have it installed
in your system and configured QGIS properly, so it can find all necessary files.
There are two versions of TauDEM tools: singlefile (TauDEM 5.0.6 or 5.1.2) and multifile (TauDEM 5.2.0). The
difference between these versions in the supported inputs/outputs. Single files version accepts only single raster
file and write single file as output. Multifile version accepts a directory with rasters and writes directory with
rasters as output. Such directory should contain rasters that will be treated as a single DEM grid.
TauDEM Processing provider supports both single- and multifile versions of TauDEM and even allows to use them
simultaneously.
Nota: While TauDEM Processing provider supports TauDEM 5.0.6, 5.1.2 and 5.2.0 we recommend to use 5.1.2
and/or 5.2.0 as this versions have some new tools available, like Gage Watershed and TWI.
Instalando TauDEM bajo Windows
Please visit the TauDEM homepage and download desired version of the precompiled binaries for your platform
(32-bit or 64-bit), usually this is Command Line Executables. Also you need to download Microsoft HPC Pack
2012 MS-MPI. First install Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 MS-MPI by runing mpi_x64.Msi for 64-bit platforms
and mpi_x86.Msi for 32-bit platforms.
Nota: Si quiere usar TauDEM 5.0.6
Instalando TauDEM bajo Linux
Unfortunately there are no packages for most Linux distributions, so you should compile TauDEM by yourself.
As TauDEM uses MPI it is necessary to install first any MPI implementation e.g MPICH or OpenMPI. Use your
favorite package manager to install MPICH or OpenMPI.
Download TauDEM 5.2.0 source code package from GitHub repository and extract archive contents. Open termi-
nal and cd into src directory inside extracted folder. Create build directory and cd into it

mkdir build
cd build
Configure your build (change install prefix if necessary) and compile

CXX=mpicxx cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
make
When compilation finished install TauDEM tools by running

sudo make install
Nota: Executable files will be installed into bin subdirectory inside prefix you specified at the con-
figure stage. For example if you specified prefix /opt/taudem5.2 than binaries will be installed into
/opt/taudem5.2/bin.
To use singlefile version download source package here and perform above mentioned steps to compile and
install it.
Old TauDEM 5.0.6 also available. But before compiling this version it is necessary to edit some source files.
Abrir el archivo linearpart.h , y despus de la lnea
#include "mpi.h"
aadir una nueva linea con

#include <stdint.h>
y obtendr
#include "mpi.h"
#include <stdint.h>
Guardar los cambios y cerrar el archivo. Ahora abir tiffIO.h, buscar la lnea #include "stdint.h" y
sustituir las comillas ("") con <>, para obtener
#include <stdint.h>
Save the changes and close the file.

Now configure, compile and install TauDEM 5.0.6 using same commands as described above.
Configurar proveedor TauDEM
Once TauDEM is installed, start QGIS, open the Processing options dialog from Processing Options... and
configure the TauDEM algorithm provider. In the Providers group find TauDEM (hydrologic analysis) block, and
expand it. Here you will see all settings related to TauDEM.
First, ensure that algorithms are enabled, and activate provider if necessary.
Next step is to configure MPI. The MPICH/OpenMPI bin directory setting used to define location of the mpiexec
program. In most Linux distributions you can safely leave this empty, as mpiexec available in your PATH.
The Number of MPI parallel processes to use is a second setting related to MPI. It defines number of processes
that will be used to execute TauDEM commands. If you dont know which value to use, it is better to leave this
value unchanged.
Now we need to configure the path to the folder(s) where TauDEM command-line tools are installed. As we
already mention TauDEM provider supports both single- and multifile TauDEM, so there are two settings for
TauDEM folders:
TauDEM command line tools folder used to set location of the singlefile tools
TauDEM multifile command line tools folder used to set location of the multifile tools

If you have both TauDEM versions installed in different directories it is possible to specify both options.
The last step is to define which TauDEM version to use:
with Enable multifile TauDEM tools option checked you will use multifile TauDEM tools from directory,
specified in the TauDEM multifile command line tools folder. Multifile tools have same name as singlefile
with (multifile) suffix added
with Enable single TauDEM tools option checked you will use multifile TauDEM tools from directory,
specified in the TauDEM command line tools folder.
It is possible to enable both tools simultaneously. In this case you will have two instances of each tool in toolbox
and can use them in your analysis.
Nota: Be careful with developing Processing models using TauDEM!

As single- and multifile versions have different inputs, model created with singlefile algorithms will not work if
only multifile algorithms are available. If you plan to share your model please specify which TauDEM version
should be used or, better, provide two versions of your model: for single- and multifile TauDEM.
18.15 La lnea de rdenes de QGIS
El procesado incluye una herramienta practica que le permite ejecutar algoritmos sin tener que utilizar la caja de
herramientas, pero tan solo escribir el nombre del algoritmo que se desee ejecutar.
Esta herramienta es conocida como Lnea de rdenes GQIS, y esto es solo una sencilla caja de texto con autocom-
pletado donde se escribe el nombre del comando que se desee ejecutar.
Figure 18.32: La lnea de rdenes de QGIS
La lnea de rdenes se inicia del men Procesamiento o, mas practico, al presionar Shift + Ctrl + M (puede
cambiar ese atajo de teclado en la configuracin de QGIS si prefiere definir uno diferente). Para cerrarlo slo
presione ESC. Ademas de ejecutar algoritmos de procesado, la lnea de rdenes da acceso a la mayora de las
funcionalidades en QGIS, lo que significa que le da una forma prctica y eficaz de ejecutar tareas QGIS y le
permite controlar QGIS con un uso reducido de botones y mens.
Adems, la lnea de rdenes es configurable, as que puede agregar sus comandos personalizados y ellos tienen slo
unas pocas teclas de distancia, por lo que es una herramienta de gran alcance para ayudarle a ser ms productivo
en su trabajo diario con QGIS.
18.15.1 Comandos disponibles
Los comandos disponibles en la lnea de rdenes caen en la siguiente categora:

Algoritmos de procesado. Estos se muestran como Algoritmo de procesamiento: <nombre
del algoritmo>.
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Los elementos del men. Estos se muestran como Menu item: <Texto de entrada del
men>. Todos los elementos de los mens disponibles desde la interfaz de QGIS estn disponibles, in-
cluso si se incluyen en un submen.
Funciones Python. Puede crear funciones cortas en Python que sern entonces incluidas en la lista de
comandos disponibles. Ellos se muestran como Function: <nombre de la funcin>.
Para ejecutar cualquiera de los anteriores, inicie escribiendo y a continuacin, seleccione el elemento de la lista de
comandos disponibles que aparecen despus de filtrar toda la lista de comandos con el texto que ha introducido.
En caso de llamar a una funcin de Python, puede seleccionar la entrada en la lista, que tiene
el prefijo Function: (por ejemplo, Function: removeall), o simplemente escribir
directamente el nombre de la funcin (removeall en el ejemplo anterior). No hay necesi-
dad de aadir espacios despus del nombre de la funcin.
18.15.2 Crear funciones personalizadas
Las funciones personalizadas se aaden al introducir el cdigo correspondiente de Python en el archivo

commands.py que se encuentra en el directorio .qgis2/processing/commander en su carpeta de
usuario. Es solo un archivo Python simple donde puede aadir las funciones que necesite.
El archivo es creado con unas pocas funciones de ejemplo la primera vez que se abre la lnea de rdenes. Si no
ha lanzado la lnea de rdenes, puede crear el archivo usted mismo. Para editar el archivo de comandos, utilice su
editor de texto favorito. Tambin puede utilizar un editor incorporado llamando al comando edit desde la lnea
de rdenes. Se abrir el editor con el archivo de comandos, y se podr editar directamente y luego guardar los
cambios.
Por ejemplo, puede aadir la siguiente funcin, la cual borre todas las capa:
from qgis.gui import *
def removeall():
mapreg = QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance()
mapreg.removeAllMapLayers()
Una vez que se haya aadido la funcin, estar disponible en la lnea de rdenes, y puede invocarlo escribiendo
removeall. No hay necesidad de hacer algo ms aparte de escribir la funcin en s.
Las funciones pueden recibir parmetros. Aadir *args a la definicin de su funcin para recibir argumentos.
Cuando llame a la funcin desde la lnea de rdenes, los parmetros tienen que ser pasados separados por espacios.
Aqu esta un ejemplo de una funcin que carga una capa y toma un parmetro con el nombre del archivo de la
capa cargada.
import processing
def load(*args):
processing.load(args[0])
Si desea cargar la capa en /home/myuser/points.shp, escriba en la caja de texto de la lnea de rdenes:

load /home/myuser/points.shp

CHAPTER 19
Diseadores de impresin
With the Print Composer you can create nice maps and atlasses that can be printed or saved as PDF-file, an image
or an SVG-file. This is a powerful way to share geographical information produced with QGIS that can be included
in reports or published.
19.1 Perspectiva general del Diseador de impresin
El diseo de impresin ofrece crecientes capacidades de diseo e impresin. Se le permite aadir elementos a la
vista del QGIS como, etiquetas de texto, imgenes, leyendas, barras de escala, formas bsicas, flechas, tablas de
atributos y marcos HTML. Puede cambiar el tamao, grupo, alineacin y posicin y rotacin de cada elemento
y ajustar las propiedades para crear su diseo. El diseo se puede imprimir o exportar a formatos de imagen,
PostScript, PDF o SVG (la exportacin a SVG no funciona correctamente con algunas versiones recientes Qt4,
debe intentarlo y comprobar de forma individual en el sistema). Puede guardar el diseo como una plantilla y
cargarla de nuevo en otra sesin. Por ltimo, la generacin de varios mapas basados en una plantilla se puede
hacer a travs del generador de atlas.
19.1.1 Ejemplo de sesin
Before you start to work with the Print Composer, you need to load some raster or vector layers in the QGIS map
canvas and adapt their properties to suit your own convenience. After everything is rendered and symbolized to
New Print Composer
your liking, click the icon in the toolbar or choose File New Print Composer. You will be
prompted to choose a title for the new Composer.
To demonstrate how to create a map please follow the next instructions.
Add new map

1. On the left side, select the toolbar button and draw a rectangle on the canvas holding down
the left mouse button. Inside the drawn rectangle the QGIS map view to the canvas.
Add new scalebar

2. Select the toolbar button and click with the left mouse button on the Print Composer
canvas. A scalebar will be added to the canvas.
Add new legend
3. Select the toolbar button and draw a rectangle on the canvas holding down the left mouse
button. Inside the drawn rectangle the legend will be drawn.
Select/Move item
4. Select the icon to select the map on the canvas and move it a bit.
5. While the map item is still selected you can also change the size of the map item. Click while holding down
the left mouse button, in a white little rectangle in one of the corners of the map item and drag it to a new
location to change its size.
6. Click the Item Properties tab on the left lower panel and find the setting for the orientation. Change the
value of the setting Map orientation to 15.00 . You should see the orientation of the map item change.
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7. Now, you can print or export your print composition to image formats, PDF or to SVG with the export tools
in Composer menu.
Save Project
8. Finally, you can save your print composition within the project file with the button.
You can add multiple elements to the Composer. It is also possible to have more than one map view or legend or
scale bar in the Print Composer canvas, on one or several pages. Each element has its own properties and, in the
case of the map, its own extent. If you want to remove any elements from the Composer canvas you can do that
with the Delete or the Backspace key.
19.1.2 El Administrador de diseadores
The Composer Manager is the main window to manage print composers in the project. It helps you add new print
composer, duplicate an existing one, rename or delete it. To open the composer manager dialog, click on the
Composer Manager
button in the toolbar or choose Composer Composer Manager. It can also be reached from the
main window of QGIS with Project Composer Manager.
Figure 19.1: EL Administrador de diseadores
The composer manager lists in its upper part all the available print composers in the project. The bottom part
shows tools that help to:
show the selected composer(s): you can open multiple print composers in one-click
duplicate the selected composer (available only if one print composer is selected): it creates a new composer
using the selected composer as template. Youll be prompted to choose a new title for the new composer
rename the composer (also available only if one print composer is selected): Youll be prompted to choose
a new title for the composer. Note that you can also rename the composer by double-clicking on its title in
the upper part
remove the composer: the selected print composer(s) will be deleted from the project.
With the Composer Manager, its also possible to create new print composers as an
empty composer or from a saved template. By default, QGIS will look for tem-
plates in user directory (~/.qgis2/composer_templates) or applications one
(ApplicationFolder/composer_templates). QGIS will retrieve all the available templates and
propose them in the combobox. The selected template will be used to create a new composer when clicking Add
button. You can also save composer templates in another folder. Choosing specific in the template list offers the
ability to select such template and use it to create a new print composer.
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19.1.3 Menus, tools and panels of the print composer
Opening the Print Composer provides you with a blank canvas that represents the paper surface when using the
print option. Initially you find buttons on the left beside the canvas to add map composer items: the current QGIS
map canvas, text labels, images, legends, scale bars, basic shapes, arrows, attribute tables and HTML frames. In
this toolbar you also find toolbar buttons to navigate, zoom in on an area and pan the view on the composer and
toolbar buttons to select a map composer item and to move the contents of the map item.
Figure_composer_overview shows the initial view of the Print Composer before any elements are added.
Figure 19.2: Print Composer
On the right beside the canvas you find two panels. The upper panel holds the tabs Items and Command History
and the lower panel holds the tabs Composition, Item properties and Atlas generation.
The Items tab provides a list of all map composer items added to the canvas.
The Command history tab displays a history of all changes applied to the Print Composer layout. With a
mouse click, it is possible to undo and redo layout steps back and forth to a certain status.
The Composition tab allows you to set paper size, orientation, the page background, number of pages and
print quality for the output file in dpi. Furthermore, you can also activate the Print as raster checkbox.
This means all items will be converted to raster before printing or saving as PostScript or PDF. In this tab,
you can also customize settings for grid and smart guides.
Select/Move item
The Item Properties tab displays the properties for the selected item. Click the icon to
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select an item (e.g., legend, scale bar or label) on the canvas. Then click the Item Properties tab and
customize the settings for the selected item.
The Atlas generation tab allows you to enable the generation of an atlas for the current Composer and gives
access to its parameters.
In the bottom part of the Print Composer window, you can find a status bar with mouse position, current page
number, a combo box to set the zoom level, the number of selected items if applicable and, in the case of atlas
generation, the number of features.
In the upper part of the Print composer window, you can find menus and other toolbars. All Print Composer tools
are available in menus and as icons in a toolbar. See a list of tools in table_composer_1.
The toolbars and the tabs can be switched off and on using the right mouse button over any toolbar or through
View Toolbars or View Panels.

Tools
Icono Purpose Icono Purpose

Guardar Proyecto New Composer
Duplicate Composer Composer Manager
Cargar de plantilla Guardar como plantilla
Imprimir o exportar como PostScript Exportar a un formato imagen
Exportar composicin de impresin Exportar a PDF
como SVG
Revertir ltimo cambio Restaurar el ltimo cambio
Acercamiento a toda la extensin Acercamiento a 100%
Acercamiento Alejamiento
Actualizar Vista
Pan Acercamiento a regin especfica
Seleccionar/Mover elemento en diseo Mover contenido dentro de un
de impresin elemento
Adicionar nuevo mapa desde tela de Aadir imagen al diseo de impresin
mapa QGIS
Aadir etiqueta al diseo de impresin Aadir nueva leyenda a diseo de
|eti-
impresin
queta|
Aadir barra de escala a diseo de Aadir figura bsica al diseo de
impresin impresin
Adicionar flecha a diseo de impresin Adicionar tabla de atributo a diseo
de impresin
Adicionar un marco HTML
Group items of print composition Desagrupar elementos del diseo de
impresin
Bloquear Elementos Seleccionados Desbloquear todos los elementos
|blo- |desblo-
queado| queado|
Elevar elementos seleccionados Bajar elementos seleccionados
Move selected items to top Mover elementos seleccionados abajo
Alinear elementos seleccionados a la Alinear elementos seleccionados a la
izquierda derecha
Align selected items center Align selected items center vertical
Alinear elementos seleccionados hacia Align selected items bottom
arriba
Vista previa del Atlas First Feature
Previous Feature Next Feature
Last feature Imprimir Atlas
Exportar Atlas como imagen Atlas Settings
Table Composer 1: Print Composer Tools

Composer Menu
With the Composer Save Project action, you can save the project file directly from the print composer window.
The Composer menu also provides actions to:
New Composer...
Create a new and blank print composer with
Duplicate Composer...
: Create a new print composer by duplicating the current one
Composer Manager...
Open the
Print Composers... : Open an existing print composer
Save as template Add items from template

Once the layout is designed, with and icons, you can save the current state
of a Print Composer session as a .qpt template and load its item again in another session.
In the Composer menu, there are also powerful ways to share geographical information produced with QGIS that
Export as Image... Export as PDF... Export as SVG...
can be included in reports or published. These tools are , , and
Print...
.
Men Configuracin
From Settings Composer Options you can set some options that will be used as default on any composer during
your work.
Compositions defaults let you specify the default font to use.
With Grid appearance, you can set the grid style and its color. There are three types of grid: Dots, Solid
lines and Crosses.
Grid and guide defaults defines spacing, offset and tolerance of the grid.
Men Editar
Copy/Cut and Paste Items
The print composer includes actions to use the common Copy/Cut/Paste functionality for the items in the layout.
As usual first you need to select the items using one of the options seen above; at this point the actions can be
found in the Edit menu. When using the Paste action, the elements will be pasted according to the current mouse
position. Using the Edit Paste in Place action or pressing Ctrl+Shift+V will paste the items into the current
page, at the same position they were in their initial page. It ensures to copy/paste items at the same place, from
page to page.
Nota: HTML items can not be copied in this way. As a workaround, use the [Add Frame] button in the Item
Properties tab.
Men Vista
Herramientas de Navegacin
To navigate in the canvas layout, the Print Composer provides some general tools:
Zoom In

Zoom Out


Zoom Full

Zoom to 100%

Refresh view
(if you find the view in an inconsistent state)
Show Grid behind items.
Snap Grid to snap items on the grid.
Show Guides to help user to align items. These are red line that you can click in the rule (above or at the
left side of the layout) and drag and drop to the desired location.
Snap Guides: allows user to snap items to the guides,
Smart Guides: uses other composer items as guides to dynamically snap to as user moves or reshapes an
item.
Clear Guides to remove all current guides.
Show Bounding box around the items.
Show Rules around the layout.
Show Pages or set up pages to transparent. Often composer is used to create non-print layouts, e.g. for
inclusion in presentations or other documents, and its desirable to export the composition using a totally
transparent background. Its sometimes referred to as infinite canvas in other editing packages.
Toggle Full Screen makes the composer window to full screen.
Hide Panels hides/shows the right panel
Panels lists all panels available to hide/show them.
Toolbars same as above for toolbars.
You can change the zoom level also using the mouse wheel or the combo box in the status bar. If you need
to switch to pan mode while working in the Composer area, you can hold the Spacebar or the mouse wheel.
With Ctrl+Spacebar, you can temporarily switch to Zoom In mode, and with Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar, to
Zoom Out mode.
Ocultar y Mostrar Paneles
To maximise the space available to interact with a composition you can use View Hide panels or press F10.
Nota: Its also possible to switch to a full screen mode to have more space to interact by pressing F11 or using
View Toggle full screen.
Composition Tab
Tamao y configuracin de pgina
In the Composition tab, you can define the global settings of the current composition.
You can choose one of the Presets formats for your paper sheet, or enter your custom width, height and units. You
can also choose the page Orientation to use.
Composition can be divided into several pages. For instance, a first page can show a map canvas, and a second
page can show the attribute table associated with a layer, while a third one shows an HTML frame linking to your
organization website. Set the Number of pages to the desired value. you can also custom the Page Background
with the color or the symbol you want.

Figure 19.3: Composition settings in the Print Composer
The Page size options apply to all the pages in the composition. However, you can modify the values using the
data defined override options (see Data Defined Override Buttons).
A custom page size can also be set, using the Resize page tool. This creates an unique page composition, resizes
the page to fit the current contents of the composition (with optional margins).
Configuracin de exportacin
You can define a resolution to use for all exported maps in Export resolution. This setting can however be overrid-
den each time you are exporting a map. When checked, print as raster means all elements will be rasterized
before printing or saving as PostScript or PDF.
While exporting to an image file format, you can choose to generate a world file by checking World file on and
select a map item. The world file is created beside the exported map, has same name and contains information to
easily georeference it.
Figure 19.4: Export Settings in the Print Composer

Cuadrcula y guas
You can put some reference marks on your composition paper sheet to help you place some items. These marks
can be:
simple lines (called Guides) put at the position you want. To do that, ensure that Show Rulers and Show
Guides in View menu are checked. Then, click and drag from within the ruler to the paper sheet. A vertical
or horizontal line is added to the paper and you can set its position following the coordinates displayed at
the left bottom of the composer dialog.
or regular Grid.
Whether grids or guides should be shown is set in View menu. There, you can also decide if they might be used to
snap composer items. The Grid and guides section lets you customize grid settings like Grid spacing, Grid offset
and Snap tolerance to your need. The tolerance is the maximum distance below which an item is snapped to a
grid or a guide.
Figure 19.5: Snapping to grids in the Print Composer
In the Options Composer menu in QGIS main canvas, you can also set the spacing, offset and snap tolerance
of the grid as much as its style and color. These options are applied by default to any new print composer.
Command History Tab: Revert and Restore actions
During the layout process, it is possible to revert and restore changes. This can be done with the revert and restore
tools:
Revert last change

Restore last change

This can also be done by mouse click within the Command history tab (see figure_composer_1). The History tab
lists the last actions done within the composer. Just select the point you want to revert to and once you do new
action all the actions done after the selected one will be removed.
Figure 19.6: Command history in the Print Composer
Items Tab
The Items tab offers some options to manage selection and visibility of items. All the items added to the print
composer canvas are shown in a list and selecting an item makes the corresponding row selected in the list as well

as selecting a row does select the corresponding item in the print composer canvas. This is thus a handy way to
select an item placed behind another one. Note that a selected row is shown as bold.
For any selected item, you can :
set it visible or not,
lock or unlock its position,

order its Z position. You can move up and down each item in the list with a click and drag. The upper item
in the list will be brought to the foreground in the print composer canvas. By default, a newly created item
is placed in the foreground.
change the name by double-clicking the text.
Once you have found the correct position for an item, you can lock it by ticking the box in column. Locked
items are not selectable on the canvas. Locked items can be unlocked by selecting the item in the Items tab and
unchecking the tickbox or you can use the icons on the toolbar.
19.2 Elementos de diseo
19.2.1 Opciones comunes en los elementos del diseador
Los elementos del diseador tienen un conjunto de propiedades comunes que se encontrar en la parte inferior de la
pestaa Propiedades del elemento: Posicin y tamao, Rotacin, Marco, Fondo, ID del elemento y Representacin
(Ver figure_composer_common_1).
The Position and size dialog lets you define the size and position of the frame which contains the item. You
can also choose which Reference point will be set at the X and Y coordinates previously defined.
The Rotation sets the rotation of the element (in degrees).
The Frame shows or hides the frame around the item. Click on the [Color] and [Thickness] buttons to
adjust those properties.
Use the Background color menu for setting a background color. Click on the [Color...] button to display a
dialog where you can pick a color or choose from a custom setting. Transparency can be adjusted through
atlering the alpha field settings.
Use the Item ID to create a relationship to other Print Composer items. This is used with QGIS server and
other potential web clients. You can set an ID on an item (for example, a map or a label), and then the
web client can send data to set a property (e.g., label text) for that specific item. The GetProjectSettings
command will list the items and IDs which are available in a layout.
Rendering mode helps you set whether and how the item can be displayed.
Nota:
If you checked Use live-updating color chooser dialogs in the QGIS general options, the color button
will update as soon as you choose a new color from Color Dialog windows. If not, you need to close the
Color Dialog.

The icon next to a field means that you can associate the field with data in the map
item or use expressions. These are particularly helpful with atlas generation (See Data Defined Override
Buttons).
Rendering mode
QGIS now allows advanced rendering for Composer items just like vector and raster layers.

Figure 19.7: Dilogo de propiedades de elementos comunes
Figure 19.8: Rendering mode
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Blending mode: With this tool you can achieve effects which would otherwise only be achieved using
graphic rendering software. The pixels of your overlaying and underlaying items can be mixed according
to the mode set (see Modos de Mezcla for description of each effect).
Transparency : You can make the underlying item in the Composer visible with this
tool. Use the slider to adapt the visibility of your item to your needs. You can also make a precise definition
of the percentage of visibility in the menu beside the slider.
Exclude item from exports: You can decide to make an item invisible in all exports. After activating this
checkbox, the item will not be included in export to PDF, print etc..
Tamao y posicin
Each item inside the Composer can be moved and resized to create a perfect layout. For both operations the
Select/Move item
first step is to activate the tool and to click on the item; you can then move it using the mouse
while holding the left button. If you need to constrain the movements to the horizontal or the vertical axis, just
hold the Shift button on the keyboard while moving the mouse. If you need better precision, you can move
a selected item using the Arrow keys on the keyboard; if the movement is too slow, you can speed up it by
holding Shift.
A selected item will show squares on its boundaries; moving one of them with the mouse, will resize the item
in the corresponding direction. While resizing, holding Shift will maintain the aspect ratio. Holding Alt will
resize from the item center.
The correct position for an item can be obtained using the grid snapping or smart guides. Guides are set by clicking
and dragging within the ruler area. To move a guide, click on the ruler, level with the guide and drag it to a new
position. To delete a guide move it off the canvas. If you need to disable the snap on the fly, hold Ctrl while
moving the mouse.
Select/Move item
You can choose multiple items with the button. Just hold the Shift button and click on all the
items you need. You can then resize/move this group like a single item.
Once you have found the correct position for an item, you can lock it by using the items on the toolbar or ticking
the box next to the item in the Items tab. Locked items are not selectable on the canvas.
Locked items can be unlocked by selecting the item in the Items tab and unchecking the tickbox or you can use
the icons on the toolbar.
To unselect an item, just click on it holding the Shift button.
Inside the Edit menu, you can find actions to select all the items, to clear all selections or to invert the current
selection.
Alineacin
Raise selected items

Raising or lowering the visual hierarchy for elements are inside the pull-down menu. Choose
an element on the Print Composer canvas and select the matching functionality to raise or lower the selected
element compared to the other elements. This order is shown in the Items tab. You can also raise or lower objects
in the Items tab by clicking and dragging an objects label in this list.
Align selected items

There are several alignment options available within the pull-down menu (see fig-
ure_composer_common_3). To use an alignment function, you first select the elements then click on the matching
alignment icon. All selected elements will then be aligned to their common bounding box. When moving items
on the Composer canvas, alignment helper lines appear when borders, centers or corners are aligned.

Figure 19.9: Alignment helper lines in the Print Composer

19.2.2 El elemento del mapa
Aadir nuevo mapa

Haga clic en el botn de la barra de herramientas en la barra de herramientas del Diseador de
impresin para agregar una vista del mapa de QGIS. Ahora, arrastre un rectngulo sobre el lienzo del Diseador
con el botn izquierdo del ratn para aadir el mapa. Para mostrar el mapa actual, se puede elegir entre tres modos
diferentes en el mapa, la pestaa Propiedades del elemento:
Rectangle is the default setting. It only displays an empty box with a message Map will be printed here.
Cache renders the map in the current screen resolution. If you zoom the Composer window in or out, the
map is not rendered again but the image will be scaled.
Render means that if you zoom the Composer window in or out, the map will be rendered again, but for
space reasons, only up to a maximum resolution.
Cache is the default preview mode for newly added Print Composer maps.
Select/Move item
You can resize the map item by clicking on the button, selecting the element, and dragging one
of the blue handles in the corner of the map. This button also helps to move the map to another place. Select the
item and while holding the left mouse button, move to the new place and release the mouse button. After you have
found the right place for an item, you can lock the item position within the Print Composer canvas. Select the map
Lock Selected Items
item and use the toolbar or the Items tab to Lock the item. A locked item can only be selected
Unlock All Items
using the Items tab. Once selected you can use the Items tab to unlock individual items. The icon
will unlock all locked composer items. With the map selected, you can now adapt more properties in the map Item
Properties tab.
Move item content

To move layers within the map element, select the map element, click the icon and move the
layers within the map item frame with the left mouse button.
Main properties
The Main properties dialog of the map Item Properties tab provides the following functionalities (see fig-
ure_composer_map_1):
The Preview area allows you to define the preview modes Rectangle, Cache and Render, as described
above. If you change the view on the QGIS map canvas by changing vector or raster properties, you can
update the Print Composer view by selecting the map element in the Print Composer and clicking the
[Update preview] button.
The field Scale sets a manual scale.
The field Map rotation allows you to rotate the map element content clockwise in degrees. The
rotation of the map view can be imitated here. Note that a correct coordinate frame can only be added with
the default value 0 and that once you defined a Map rotation it currently cannot be changed.
Draw map canvas items lets you show annotations that may be placed on the map canvas in the main
QGIS window.
You can choose to lock the layers shown on a map item. Check Lock layers for map item. After this
is checked, any layer that would be displayed or hidden in the main QGIS window will not appear or be
hidden in the map item of the Composer. But style and labels of a locked layer are still refreshed according
to the main QGIS interface. You can prevent this by using Lock layer styles for map item.
The button allows you to add quickly all the presets views you have prepared in QGIS. Clicking on the
button you will see the list of all the preset views: just select the preset you want to display. The map
canvas will automatically lock the preset layers by enabling the Lock layers for map item: if you want
to unselect the preset, just uncheck the and press the button. See Panel de Capas to find out how to
create presets views.

Figure 19.10: Map Item properties Tab
Locked layers in the map can also be data-defined, using the icon beside the option. When used, this
overrides the selection set in the drop-down list. You need to pass a list of layers separated by | character.
The following example locks the map item to use only layers layer 1 and layer 2:
concat (layer 1, |, layer 2)
Extensin
The Extents dialog of the map item tab provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_map_2):
Figure 19.11: Dilogo Extensin de Mapa
The Map extents area allows you to specify the map extent using X and Y min/max values and by clicking
the [Set to map canvas extent] button. This button sets the map extent of the composer map item to the
extent of the current map view in the main QGIS application. The button [View extent in map canvas]
does exactly the opposite, it updates the extent of the map view in the QGIS application to the extent of the
composer map item.

If you change the view on the QGIS map canvas by changing vector or raster properties, you can update the Print
Composer view by selecting the map element in the Print Composer and clicking the [Update preview] button in
the map Item Properties tab (see figure_composer_map_1).
Grids
The Grids dialog of the map Item Properties tab provides the possibility to add several grids to a map item.
With the plus and minus button you can add or remove a selected grid.
With the up and down button you can move a grid in the list and set the drawing priority.
When you double click on the added grid you can give it another name.
Figure 19.12: Map Grids Dialog
After you have added a grid, you can activate the checkbox Draw grid to overlay a grid onto the map element.
Expand this option to provide a lot of configuration options, see Figure_composer_map_4.
Figure 19.13: Draw Grid Dialog
As grid type, you can specify to use a Solid, Cross, Markers or Frame and annotations only. Frame and
annotations only is especially useful when working with rotated maps or reprojected grids. In the divisions section
of the Grid Frame Dialog mentioned below you then have a corresponding setting. Symbology of the grid and
its rendering mode can be chosen. See Rendering mode. Furthermore, you can define an interval in the X and Y
directions, an X and Y offset, and the width used for the cross or line grid type.
There are different options to style the frame that holds the map. Following options are available: No Frame,
Zebra, Interior ticks, Exterior ticks, Interior and Exterior ticks and Lineborder.

Figure 19.14: Grid Frame Dialog
With Latitude/Y only and Longitude/X only setting in the divisions section you have the possibility to
prevent a mix of latitude/y and longitude/x coordinates showing on a side when working with rotated maps
or reprojected grids.
Advanced rendering mode is also available for grids.
The Draw coordinates checkbox allows you to add coordinates to the map frame. You can choose the
annotation numeric format, the options range from decimal to degrees, minute and seconds, with or without
suffix, aligned or not and a custom format using the expression dialog. You can choose which annotation
to show. The options are: show all, latitude only, longitude only, or disable(none). This is useful when the
map is rotated. The annotation can be drawn inside or outside the map frame. The annotation direction can
be defined as horizontal, vertical ascending or vertical descending. Finally, you can define the annotation
font, the annotation font color, the annotation distance from the map frame and the precision of the drawn
coordinates.
Overviews
The Overviews dialog of the map Item Properties tab provides the following functionalities:
You can choose to create an overview map, which shows the extents of the other map(s) that are available in the
composer. First you need to create the map(s) you want to include in the overview map and the map you want to
use as the overview map, just like a normal map.
Then expand Overviews option and press the green plus icon-button to add an overview. Initially this overview
is named Overview 1 (see Figure_composer_map_7). You can change the name when you double-click on the
overview item in the list named Overview 1 and change it to another name.
With the plus and minus button you can add or remove an overview.
Con el botn de arriba y abajo puede mover una vista general en la lista y definir la prioridad de dibujado.
When you select the overview item in the list you can customize it.
The Draw <name_overview> overview needs to be activated to draw the extent of selected map
frame.
The Map frame combo list can be used to select the map item whose extents will be drawn on the present
map item.
The Frame Style allows you to change the style of the overview frame.
The Blending mode allows you to set different transparency blend modes.

Figure 19.15: Grid Draw Coordinates dialog
Figure 19.16: Map Overviews Dialog

La Invertir vista general crea una mscara al rededor de las extensiones cuando activa: las extensiones
del mapa referenciado se muestran claramente, mientras que todo lo dems es mezclado con el color del
marco.
El Centrar en vista general pone la extensin del marco de la vista general al centro de la vista general
del mapa. Slo se puede activar un elemento de vista general para centrar, cuando ha aadido varias vistas
generales.
19.2.3 El elemento etiqueta
Para aadir una etiqueta, haga clic en el icono |mActionLabel| Aadir etiqueta , ubique el elemento con el botn
izquierdo del ratn en la vista de diseador de impresin y posicione y personalice su apariencia en la etiqueta de
la pestaa Propiedades del elemento.
La pestaa de Propiedades del elemento de un elemento etiqueta proporciona la siguiente funcionalidad al ele-
mento (vea Figure_composer_label):
Figure 19.17: Pestaa de propiedades de elemento de etiqueta
Propiedades principales
El dilogo de las propiedades principales es donde el texto (HTML o no) o la expresin necesita llenar la
etiqueta aadida a la vista del diseador.
Las etiquetas pueden ser interpretadas como cdigo HTML: check Representar como HTML. Ahora
puede insertar una URL, una imagen seleccionable que enlaza a una pgina web o algo ms complejo.
Se puede insertar una expresin. Haga clic [Insertar una expresin] para abrir un nuevo dilogo. Construir
una expresin al hacer clic en las funciones disponibles en el lado izquierdo del panel. Dos categoras
especiales pueden ser tiles, asociadas particularmente con la funcionalidad atlas: las funciones geomtricas
y funciones de registros. En el fondo, una vista preliminar de la expresin se muestra.

Apariencia
Definir Tipo de letra al hacer clic en el botn [Tipo de letra...] o seleccionando un Color de letras un color
utilizando la herramienta de seleccion de color.
Se puede especificar diferentes margenes horizontal y vertical en mm. Este es el margen del borde del
diseador. La etiqueta puede ser posicionada fuera de los lmites de la etiqueta por ejemplo alinear el
elemento etiqueta con otros elementos. En este caso tiene que utilizar valores negativos para el margen.
Utilizar la Alineacin es otra forma para posicionar su etiqueta. Tenga en cuenta que cuando por ejemplo
utilice la Alineacin horizontal en la posicin Centro la caracterstica Margen horizontal es desactivado.
19.2.4 El elemento leyenda
Para aadir una leyenda, haga clic en el icono |mActionAddLegend| Aadir leyenda nueva , colocar el elemento con el
botn izquierdo del ratn en el lienzo del Diseador de Impresin y posicionar y personalizar la apariencia en la
pestaa Propiedades del elemento de la leyenda.
Las Propiedades del elemento de la pestaa del elemento leyenda proporciona las siguientes funcionalidades (ver
figure_composer_legend_1):
Figure 19.18: Pestaa de propiedades del elemento leyenda
El dilogo Propiedades principales de la pestaa de leyenda Item Properties proporciona las siguientes funcional-
idades (ver figure_composer_legend_2):
En propiedades principales se puede:
Cambiar el ttulo de la leyenda.
Establecer la alineacin del ttulo a la Izquierda, Centro o Derecha
Puede elegir que elemento Mapa de la leyenda actual se referir a la lista de seleccin.
Se puede envolver el texto del ttulo de la leyenda sobre un carcter determinado.

Figure 19.19: Dilogo de Propiedades de la leyenda principal
Elementos de la leyenda
El dilogo Elementos de la leyenda de la pestaa de leyenda Propiedades de la leyenda proporciona las siguientes
funcionalidades (ver figure_composer_legend_3):
Figure 19.20: Dilogo de elementos de la leyenda
La leyenda se actualizar automticamente si Auto actualizar es activado. Cuando guilabel:Auto actu-

alizar es desactivado este le dar ms control sobre los elementos de la leyenda. Los iconos debajo de los
elementos de la leyenda se activarn.
La ventana de los elementos de la leyenda lista todos los elementos y le permite cambiar el orden, capas de
grupos, eliminar y restaurar elementos en la lista, editar nombres de capas y aadir un filtro.
El orden de los elementos se puede cambiar utilizando los botones [Arriba] y [Abajo] con la fun-
cionalidad de arrastrar y soltar. El orden no se puede cambiar para las grficas de leyenda WMS.
Utilice el botn [Aadir grupo] para aadir un grupo a la leyenda.
Utilice los botones [ms] y [menos] para aadir o eliminar capas.
El botn [Editar] se utiliza para editar la capa-, nombre de grupo o ttulo, primero se necesita selec-
cionar el elemento leyenda.
El botn [Sigma] aade un caracterstica de recuento para cada capa vectorial.
Utilizar el botn [filtrar] para filtrar la leyenda por el contenido del mapa, slo los elementos de la
leyenda visibles en el mapa se enlistarn en la leyenda.
Despus de cambiar la simbologa en la ventana principal de QGIS se puede hacer clic en [Actualizar todo]
para adaptar los cambios en el elemento leyenda del Diseador de Impresin.
Fuentes, Columnas, Smbolo
Los dilogos Fuente, Columnss and Smbolos de la pestaa Item Properties proporcionan las siguientes funcional-
idades (ver figura_composer_legend_4):
Se puede cambiar la fuente del ttulo de la leyenda, grupo, subgrupo y elementos (capa) en la leyenda. Haga
clic en un botn de categora para abrir un dilogo Seleccionar fuente.

Figure 19.21: Dilogo de Fuentes de leyenda, Columnas y Smbolos
Con el selector de color se dota a las etiquetas de Color, se dar el color seleccionado a todos los elementos
de la leyenda.
Legend items can be arranged over several columns. Set the number of columns in the Count field.
Anchura de columnas igual controla cmo deberan ser ajustadas las columnas de la leyenda.
La opcin Dividir capas permite a una capa categorizada o graduada de la leyenda repartirse en
columnas.
You can also change the width and height of the legend symbol,set a color and a thickness in case of raster
layer symbol.
WMS LegendGraphic y espaciamiento
Los dilogos GrficoDeLeyenda WMS y Espaciado de la leyenda en la pestaa Propiedades del elemento propor-
ciona las siguientes funcionalidades (vea figure_composer_legend_5):
Cando se ha aadido una capa WMS y se inserta un elemento leyenda, una peticin se enviar al servidor WMS
para proveer una leyenda WMS. Esta leyenda slo se mostrar si el servidor WMS proporciona la capacidad de
GetLegendGraphic. El contenido de la leyenda WMS ser proporcionado como una imagen rster.
GrficoDeLeyenda WMS se utiliza para poder ajustar el Anchura de la leyenda y la Altura de la leyenda de la
imagen rster de la leyenda WMS.
El espaciado alrededor del ttulo, grupo, subgrupo, smbolo, etiqueta de icono, espacio de caja o espacio de
columna puede ser personalizado a travs de este dilogo.

Figure 19.22: Dilogos WMS LegendGraphic y espaciamiento
19.2.5 El elemento de barra de escala
Aadir nueva barra de escala

Para aadir una barra de escala, haga clic en el icono , coloque el elemento con el botn
izquierdo del ratn en la vista del Diseador y posicione y personalice la apariencia en la pestaa Propiedades del
elemento de la barra de escala.
The Item properties of a scale bar item tab provides the following functionalities (see fig-
ure_composer_scalebar_1):
Figure 19.23: Pestaa de propiedades del elemento barra de escala
The Main properties dialog of the scale bar Item Properties tab provides the following functionalities (see fig-
First, choose the map the scale bar will be attached to.
Then, choose the style of the scale bar. Six styles are available:

Figure 19.24: Scale Bar Main properties Dialog
Single box and Double box styles, which contain one or two lines of boxes alternating colors.
Middle, Up or Down line ticks.
Numeric, where the scale ratio is printed (i.e., 1:50000).
Units and Segments
The Units and Segments dialogs of the scale bar Item Properties tab provide the following functionalities (see
figure_composer_scalebar_3):
Figure 19.25: Unidades de la barra de escala y dilogo de segmentos
In these two dialogs, you can set how the scale bar will be represented.
Select the units you want to use with Scalebar units. There are four possible choices: Map Units, the
default one and Meters, Feet or Nautical Miles which may force unit conversions.
The Label unit multiplier specifies how many scalebar units per labeled unit. Eg, if your scalebar units are
set to meters, a multiplier of 1000 will result in the scale bar labels in kilometers.
The Label for units field defines the text used to describe the units of the scale bar, eg m or km. This
should be matched to reflect the multiplier above.
You can define how many Segments will be drawn on the left and on the right side of the scale bar.
You can set how long each segment will be (fixed width), or limit the scale bar size in mm with Fit segment
width option. In the latter case, each time the map scale changes, the scale bar is resized (and its label
updated) to fit the range set.
Height is used to define the height of the bar.

Display
The Display dialog of the scale bar Item Properties tab provide the following functionalities (see fig-
Figure 19.26: Scale Bar Display
You can define how the scale bar will be displayed in its frame.
Box margin : space between text and frame borders
Labels margin : space between text and scale bar drawing
Line width : line width of the scale bar drawing
Join style : Corners at the end of scalebar in style Bevel, Rounded or Square (only available for Scale bar
style Single Box & Double Box)
Cap style : End of all lines in style Square, Round or Flat (only available for Scale bar style Line Ticks Up,
Down and Middle)
Alignment : Puts text on the left, middle or right side of the frame (works only for Scale bar style Numeric)
Fonts and colors
The Fonts and colors dialog of the scale bar Item Properties tab provide the following functionalities (see fig-
Figure 19.27: Scale Bar Fonts and colors Dialogs
You can define the fonts and colors used for the scale bar.
Use the [Font] button to set the font of scale bar label
Font color: set the font color
Fill color: set the first fill color
Secondary fill color: set the second fill color

Stroke color: set the color of the lines of the Scale Bar
Fill colors are only used for scale box styles Single Box and Double Box. To select a color you can use the list
option using the dropdown arrow to open a simple color selection option or the more advanced color selection
option, that is started when you click in the colored box in the dialog.
19.2.6 El elemento de Tabla de Atributos
Add attribute table

It is possible to add parts of a vector attribute table to the Print Composer canvas: Click the
icon, click and drag with the left mouse button on the Print Composer canvas to place and size the item. You can
better position and customize its appearance in the Item Properties tab.
The Item properties tab of an attribute table provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_table_1):
Figure 19.28: Pestaa de propiedades del elemento de Tabla de atributos
The Main properties dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see fig-
ure_composer_table_2):
Figure 19.29: Attribute table Main properties Dialog
For Source you can normally select only Layer features.

With Layer you can choose from the vector layers loaded in the project.

In case you activated the Generate an atlas option in the Atlas generation tab, there are two additional
Source possible: Current atlas feature (see figure_composer_table_2b) and Relation children (see fig-
ure_composer_table_2c). Choosing the Current atlas feature you wont see any option to choose the layer,
and the table item will only show a row with the attributes from the current feature of the atlas coverage
layer. Choosing Relation children, an option with the relation names will show up. The Relation children
option can only be used if you have defined a relation using your atlas coverage layer as parent, and the table
will show the children rows of the atlas coverage layers current feature (for further information about the
atlas generation, see Generar un Atlas).
The button [Refresh table data] can be used to refresh the table when the actual contents of the table has
changed.
Figure 19.30: Attribute table Main properties for Current atlas feature
Figure 19.31: Attribute table Main properties for Relation children
The button [Attributes...] starts the Select attributes menu, see figure_composer_table_3, that can be used
to change the visible contents of the table. After making changes use the [OK] button to apply changes to
the table. The upper part of the window shows the list of the attributes to display and the lower part helps to
set the way the data is sorted.
In the Columns section you can:
Remove an attribute, just select an attribute row by clicking anywhere in the row and press the minus
button to remove the selected attribute.
Add a new attribute use the plus button. At the end a new empty row appears and you can select empty
cell of the column Attribute. You can select a field attribute from the list or you can select to build a
new attribute using a regular expression ( button). Of course you can modify every already existing
attribute by means of a regular expression.
Use the up and down arrows to change the order of the attributes in the table.
Select a cell in the Headings column and, to change the heading, just type in a new name.
set a precise Alignment (mixing vertical and horizontal alignment options) for each column.
Select a cell in the Width column and change it from Automatic to a width in mm, just type a number.
When you want to change it back to Automatic, use the cross.
The [Reset] button can always be used to restore it to the original attribute settings.
In the Sorting section you can:
Add an attribute to sort the table with. Select an attribute and set the sorting order to Ascending or
Descending and press the plus button. A new line is added to the sort order list.

Figure 19.32: Seleccionar tabla de atributos Dilogo de atributos
select a row in the list and use the up and down button to change the sort priority on attribute level.
Selecting a cell in the Sort Order column helps you change the sorting order of the attribute field.
use the minus button to remove an attribute from the sort order list.
Filtrado de objetos espaciales
The Feature filtering dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see fig-
Figure 19.33: Attribute table Feature filtering Dialog
You can:
Define the Maximum rows to be displayed.
Activate Remove duplicate rows from table to show unique records only.
Activate Show only visible features within a map and select the corresponding Composer map to display
the attributes of features only visible on selected map.
Activate Show only features intersecting Atlas feature is only available when Generate an atlas is
activated. When activated it will show a table with only the features shown on the map of that particular

page of the atlas.
Activate Filter with and provide a filter by typing in the input line or insert a regular expression using
the given expression button. A few examples of filtering statements you can use when you have loaded
the airports layer from the Sample dataset:
ELEV > 500
NAME = ANIAK
NAME NOT LIKE AN%
regexp_match( attribute( $currentfeature, USE ) , [i])
The last regular expression will include only the airports that have a letter i in the attribute field USE.
Apariencia
The Appearance dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_table_5):
Figure 19.34: Attribute table appearance Dialog
Click Show empty rows to fill the attribute table with empty cells. This option can also be used to provide
additional empty cells when you have a result to show!
With Cell margins you can define the margin around text in each cell of the table.
With Display header you can select from a list one of On first frame, On all frames default option, or
No header.
The option Empty table controls what will be displayed when the result selection is empty.
Draw headers only, will only draw the header except if you have chosen No header for Display
header.
Hide entire table, will only draw the background of the table. You can activate Dont draw
background if frame is empty in Frames to completely hide the table.
Mostrar mensaje establecido dibujar el encabezado y aadir un espaciado a la celda a todas las
columnas y mostrar un mensaje como Sin resultados que puede ser provedo en la opcin Mensaje
a mostrar
La opcin Mensaje a mostrar slo se activa cuando se ha seleccionado Mostrar mensaje establecido para
Tabla Vaca. El mensaje proporcionado se mostrar en la tabla en la primer fila, cuando el resultado es una
tabla vaca.

With Background color you can set the background color of the table. The Advanced customization option
helps you define different background colors for each cell (see figure_composer_table_6)
Figure 19.35: Attribute table Advanced Background Dialog
With the Wrap text on option, you can define a character on which the cell content will be wraped each time
it is met
With Oversized text you define the behaviour when the width set for a column is smaller than its contents
length. It can be Wrap text or Truncate text.
Mostrar cuadrcula
The Show grid dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_table_7):
Figure 19.36: Attribute table Show grid Dialog
Activate Show grid when you want to display the grid, the outlines of the table cells.
With Line width you can set the thickness of the lines used in the grid.
The Color of the grid can be set using the color selection dialog.
Fuentes de letras y estilo de texto
The Fonts and text styling dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see fig-

Figure 19.37: Attribute table Fonts and text styling Dialog
You can define Font and Color for Table heading and Table contents.
For Table heading you can additionally set the Alignment to Follow column alignment or override this
setting by choosing Left, Center or Right. The column alignment is set using the Select Attributes dialog
(see Figure_composer_table_3 ).
Marcos
The Frames dialog of the attribute table provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_table_9):
Figure 19.38: Attribute table Frames Dialog
With Resize mode you can select how to render the attribute table contents:
Use existing frames displays the result in the first frame and added frames only.
Extend to next page will create as many frames (and corresponding pages) as necessary to display the
full selection of attribute table. Each frame can be moved around on the layout. If you resize a frame,
the resulting table will be divided up between the other frames. The last frame will be trimmed to fit
the table.
Repeat until finished will also create as many frames as the Extend to next page option, except all
frames will have the same size.
Use the [Add Frame] button to add another frame with the same size as selected frame. The result of the
table that will not fit in the first frame will continue in the next frame when you use the Resize mode Use
existing frames.
Activate Dont export page if frame is empty prevents the page to be exported when the table frame has
no contents. This means all other composer items, maps, scalebars, legends etc. will not be visible in the
result.
Activate Dont draw background if frame is empty prevents the background to be drawn when the table
frame has no contents.

19.2.7 El elemento imagen
Aadir imagen
Para aadir una imagen, haga clic en el icono , ubique el elemento con el botn izquierdo del ratn
en la vista del Diseador y posicione y personalice su apariencia en la imagen en la pestaa Propiedades del
elemento .
The image Item Properties tab provides the following functionalities (see figure_composer_image_1):
Figure 19.39: Image Item properties Tab
You first have to select the image you want to display. There are several ways to set the image source in the Main
properties area.
1. Use the browse button of image source to select a file on your computer using the browse dialog. The
browser will start in the SVG-libraries provided with QGIS. Besides SVG, you can also select other image
formats like .png or .jpg.
2. You can enter the source directly in the image source text field. You can even provide a remote URL-address
to an image.
3. From the Search directories area you can also select an image from loading previews ... to set the image
source.
4. Use the data defined button to set the image source from a record or using a regular expression.
With the Resize mode option, you can set how the image is displayed when the frame is changed, or choose to
resize the frame of the image item so it matches the original size of the image.
You can select one of the following modes:
Zoom: Enlarges the image to the frame while maintaining aspect ratio of picture.
Stretch: Stretches image to fit inside the frame, ignores aspect ratio.
Clip: Use this mode for raster images only, it sets the size of the image to original image size without scaling
and the frame is used to clip the image, so only the part of the image inside the frame is visible.

El zum y el marco de redimensionado: Amplia la imagen para que se adapte al marco, entonces cambia el
tamao del marco para adaptarse a la imagen resultante.
Resize frame to image size: Sets size of frame to match original size of image without scaling.
Selected resize mode can disable the item options Placement and Image rotation. The Image rotation is active
for the resize mode Zoom and Clip.
With Placement you can select the position of the image inside its frame. The Search directories area allows
you to add and remove directories with images in SVG format to the picture database. A preview of the pictures
found in the selected directories is shown in a pane and can be used to select and set the image source.
It is possible to change SVG fill/outline color and outline width when using parameterized SVG files such as
those included with QGIS. If you add a SVG file you should add the following tags in order to add support for
transparency:
fill-opacity=param(fill-opacity)
stroke-opacity=param(outline-opacity)
You can read this blog post to see an example.
Images can be rotated with the Image rotation field. Activating the Sync with map checkbox synchronizes the
rotation of the image (i.e., a rotated north arrow) with the rotation applied to the selected map item.
It is also possible to select a north arrow directly. If you first select a north arrow image from Search directories
and then use the browse button of the field Image source, you can now select one of the north arrow from
the list as displayed in figure_composer_image_2.
Nota: Many of the north arrows do not have an N added in the north arrow, this is done on purpose for languages
that do not use an N for North, so they can use another letter.
Figure 19.40: North arrows available for selection in provided SVG library

19.2.8 El elemento del marco HTML
Es posible aadir un marco que muestre el contenido de un sitio web o incluso crear y poner estilo a su propia
pgina HTML y mostrarlo!
Aadir marco HTML

Haga clic en el icono , coloque el elemento arrastrando un rectangulo manteniendo pulsado el
boton izquierdo del ratn en el en el lienzo del Diseador de impresin y posicione y personalice la apariencia en
la pestaa Propiedades del elemento (vea figure_composer_html_1).
Figure 19.41: Marco HTML, la pestaa de propiedades del elemento
Fuente HTML
Como fuente HTML, se puede establecer una URL y activar el botn de radio URL o se introduce cdigo HTML
directamente en el cuadro de texto proporcionado y activar el botn de radio Fuente.
El dilogo Origen HTML del marco HTML de la pestaa Propiedades del elemento proporciona las siguientes
funcionalidades (vea figure_composer_html_2):
Figure 19.42: Marco HTML, las propiedades del Origen de HTML
En URL se puede ingresar la URL de una pgina web que copio de su navegador de internet o se selecciona
un archivo utilizando el botn del navegador. Tambin existe la opcin de utilizar el botn de anulacin de
datos definido, para proporcionar una direccin URL de los contenidos de un campo de atributos de una
tabla o el uso de una expresin regular.

En Fuente se puede ingresar el texto en la caja de texto con algunas pestaas HTML o proporciona una
pagina completa de HTML.
El botn [insertar una expresin] se puede utilizar para insertar una expresin como [%Year($now)%]
en la caja de texto de origen para mostrar el ao actual. En este botn slo se activa cuando el botn de radio
Origen esta seleccionado. Despus de insertar la expresin haga clic donde sea en la caja de texto antes de
actualizar el marco HTML, si no perder la expresin.
Activar la expresin Evaluar las expresiones QGIS en cdigo HTML para ver el resultado de la expresin
que ha incluido, de lo contrario, ver la expresin en su lugar.
Utilice el botn [Actualizar HTML] para actualizar los marco(s) para ver los resultados de los cambios.
Marcos
El dilogo Marcos de la pestaa marco HTML Propiedades del elemento proporciona las siguientes funcionali-
dades (ver figure_composer_html_3):
Figure 19.43: Marco HTML, las propiedades del marco
Con Modo cambio de tamao se puede seleccionar cmo renderizar el contenido HTML:
Usar marcos existentes muestra el resultado en el primer marco y aade slo marcos.
Extender a la pgina siguiente crear tantos marcos sean necesarios (y pginas corresponedientes) para
renderizar el alto de la pgina web. Cada marco se puede mover alrededor del diseo. Si cambia el
tamao de un marco, la pgina web se dividir entre los otros marcos. El ltimo cuadro se recortar
para ajustarse a la pgina web.
Repetir en toda la pgina web se repetir la parte superior izquierda de la pgina web en todas las
pginas de marcos del mismo tamao.
Repetir hasta finalizar tambin crear tantos marcos como la opcin Extender a la pgina siguiente,
excepto que todos los marcos tendrn el mismo tamao.
Utilice el botn [Aadir marco] para aadir otros marcos con el mismo tamao como el marco selec-
cionado. Si la pgina HTML no cabe en el primer marco, continuar en el siguiente marco cuando se utilice
modo cambiar tamao o Utilice marcos existentes.
Activar No exportar pgina si el marco esta vaco impide el layout del mapa sea expuesto cunado el
marco no tenga contenido. Esto significa que todos los otros elementos de diseadores, mapas, barras de
escala, leyendas, etc. no seremos invisibles en el resultado.
Activar No saque el fondo si el marco es empty impide que el marco HTML est elaborando si la trama
est vaca.
Usar saltos de pgina inteligentes y hoja de estilos de usuario
El dilogo Utilizar saltos de pgina inteligentes y el dilogo Hoja de estilos de usuario del marco HTML en la pes-
taa de Propiedades del elemento proporciona las siguientes funcionalidades (consulte figure_composer_html_4):

Figure 19.44: Marco HTML, Utilice saltos de pgina inteligentes y propiedades de estilo de usuario
Activar Usar saltos de pgina inteligentes para impedir para evitar que el contenido del marco html de
romper a mitad de camino una lnea de texto por lo que contina agradable y sencillo en el cuadro siguiente.
Establecer la Mxima distancia permite en el clculo de dnde colocar los saltos de pgina en el html. Esta
distancia es la cantidad mxima de espacio vaco permitido en la parte inferior de un marco despus de
calcular la ubicacin ptima de descanso. Ajustar un valor ms grande resultar en una mejor eleccin de
la ubicacin de salto de pgina, pero ms espacio perdido en la parte inferior de los marcos. Esto slo se
utiliza cuando Usar saltos de pgina inteligentes est activado.
Activar Hoja de estilos de usuario para aplicar estilos HTML que a menudo se proporciona en hojas de
estilo en cascada. Un ejemplo de cdigo de estilo se proporciona a continuacin para establecer el color de
la etiqueta <h1> a verde y establecer el tipo de letra y tamao de texto incluido en las etiquetas del prrafo
<p>.
h1 {color: #00ff00;
}
p {font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 20px;
}
Utilice el botn [Actualizar HTML] para ver el resultado de la configuracin de la hoja de estilo.
19.2.9 Los Elementos de Forma Bsica
Aadir Forma Bsica

Para aadir una forma bsica (elipse, rectngulo, tringulo) haz clic en el cono , coloca el ele-
mento manteniendo presionado el botn izquierdo del ratn. Personaliza la apariencia en la pestaa Propiedades
del Objeto
Cuando tambin mantienes presionada la tecla Shift mientras colocas la forma bsica puedes crear un cuadrado,
crculo o tringulo perfecto.
Las pestaa de propiedades del elemento Forma permiten seleccionar si quieres dibujar una elipse, rectngulo o
tringulo dentro del marco dado.
Puedes establecer el estilo o la forma usando el dilogo de estilo de smbolo avanzado con el cual puedes definir
su contorno y color de relleno, patrn de relleno, usar marcadores, etctera.
Para la forma rectngulo, puedes establecer el valor del radio de la esquina para rodear las esquinas.
Nota: A diferencia de otros objetos, no puedes estilizar el marco o el color de fondo del marco.

Figure 19.45: Pestaa de propiedades del elemento forma
19.2.10 El elemento flecha
Aadir flecha
Para aadir una flecha, haga clic en el icono , coloque el elemento manteniendo pulsado el botn
izquierdo del ratn y arrastre una linea para dibujar la flecha en la vista del diseador y posicione y personalice la
apariencia en la pestaa Propiedades del elemento de la barra de escala.
When you also hold down the Shift key while placing the arrow, it is placed in an angle of exactly 45 .
The arrow item can be used to add a line or a simple arrow that can be used, for example, to show the relation
between other print composer items. To create a north arrow, the image item should be considered first. QGIS
has a set of North arrows in SVG format. Furthermore you can connect an image item with a map so it can rotate
automatically with the map (see El elemento imagen).
Figure 19.46: Arrow Item properties Tab

Item Properties
The Arrow item properties tab allows you to configure an arrow item.
The [Line style ...] button can be used to set the line style using the line style symbol editor.
In Arrows markers you can select one of three radio buttons.
Default: To draw a regular arrow, gives you options to style the arrow head
None: To draw a line without arrow head
SVG Marker: To draw a line with an SVG Start marker and/or End marker
For Default Arrow marker you can use following options to style the arrow head.
Arrow outline color: Set the outline color of the arrow head
Color de relleno de flecha : Establece el color de relleno de la punta de la flecha
Arrow outline width: Set the outline width of the arrow head
Arrow head width: Set the size of the arrow head
For SVG Marker you can use following options.
Start marker: Choose an SVG image to draw at the beginning of the line
End marker: Choose an SVG image to draw at the end of the line
Arrow head width: Set the size of Start and/or End marker
SVG images are automatically rotated with the line. The color of the SVG image can not be changed.
19.3 Creating an Output
Figure_composer_output_1 shows el diseador de impresin con un diseo de ejemplo de impresin, incluyendo

cada tipo de elemento del mapa descrito en los apartados anteriores.
Antes de imprimir un diseo tiene la posibilidad de ver su composicin sin cuadros delimitadores. Esto de puede
activar mediante la desactivacin de Ver > Mostrar cuadros delimitadores o presionando el acceso directo
Ctrl+Shift+B.
The Print Composer allows you to create several output formats, and it is possible to define the resolution (print
quality) and paper size:
Print
The icon allows you to print the layout to a connected printer or a PostScript file, depending on
installed printer drivers.
Export as image
The icon exports the Composer canvas in several image formats, such as PNG, BPM, TIF,
JPG,...
Export as SVG
The icon saves the Print Composer canvas as an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic).
Export as PDF
The icon saves the defined Print Composer canvas directly as a PDF.
19.3.1 Export as Image
Export as image
Clicking the icon will ask you to enter the filename to use to export composition: in case of
multi-page composition, each page will be exported to a file with the given name appended with the page number.

Figure 19.47: Print Composer with map view, legend, image, scale bar, coordinates, text and HTML frame added
You can then override the print resolution (set in Composition tab) and resize exported image dimensions. By
checking Crop to content option, the images output by composer will include only the area of the composition
with content. Theres also an option for margins to add around the item bounds if required.
If the composition includes a single page, then the output will be sized to include EVERYTHING on the compo-
sition. If its a multi-page composition, then each page will be cropped to only include the area of that page with
items.
Figure 19.48: Opciones de Exportacin de Imagen
If you need to export your layout as a georeferenced image (e.g., to share with other projects), you need to enable
this feature under the Composition tab. Check World file on and choose the map item to use. With this option,
the Export as image action will create a world file along the exported image.
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Nota: Exporting big rasters can sometimes fail, even if there seems to be enough memory. This is a problem with
the underlying Qt management of rasters.
19.3.2 Exportar como SVG
Export as SVG
With , you also need to fill the filename (used as a basename for all files in case of multi_page
composition) and then can apply Crop to content option.
The SVG export options dialog allows also to :
export map layers as svg groups:
render map labels as outlines
Figure 19.49: Opciones de Exportacin de SVG
Nota: Currently, the SVG output is very basic. This is not a QGIS problem, but a problem with the underlying
Qt library. This will hopefully be sorted out in future versions.
19.3.3 Export as PDF
Export as PDF
The exports all the composition into a single PDF file.
If you applied to your composition or any shown layer an advanced effect such as blend modes, transparency
or symbol effects, these cannot be printed as vectors and your effects may be lost. Checking Print as a raster
in Composition tab helps to keep the effects but rasterize the composition. Note that the Force layer to render
as raster in the Rendering tab of Layer Properties is a layer-level alternative that avoids global composition
rasterization.
19.3.4 Generar un Atlas
The Print Composer includes generation functions that allow you to create map books in an automated way. The
concept is to use a coverage layer, which contains geometries and fields. For each geometry in the coverage layer,
a new output will be generated where the content of some canvas maps will be moved to highlight the current
geometry. Fields associated with this geometry can be used within text labels.
Every page will be generated with each feature. To enable the generation of an atlas and access generation param-
eters, refer to the Atlas generation tab. This tab contains the following widgets (see figure_composer_atlas_1):

Figure 19.50: Atlas generation tab
Generate an atlas, which enables or disables the atlas generation.
A Coverage layer combo box that allows you to choose the (vector) layer containing the features on
which to iterate over.
An optional Hidden coverage layer that, if checked, will hide the coverage layer (but not the other ones)
during the generation.
An optional Page name combo box to give a more explicit name to each feature page(s) when previewing
atlas. You can select an attribute of the coverage layer or set an expression. If this option is empty, QGIS
will use an internal ID, according to the filter and/or the sort order applied to the layer.
An optional Filter with text area that allows you to specify an expression for filtering features from the
coverage layer. If the expression is not empty, only features that evaluate to True will be selected. The
button on the right allows you to display the expression builder.
An optional Sort by that, if checked, allows you to sort features of the coverage layer. The associated
combo box allows you to choose which column will be used as the sorting key. Sort order (either ascending
or descending) is set by a two-state button that displays an up or a down arrow.
You also have options to set the output of the atlas:
An Output filename expression textbox that is used to generate a filename for each geometry if needed. It is
based on expressions. This field is meaningful only for rendering to multiple files.
A Single file export when possible that allows you to force the generation of a single file if this is possible
with the chosen output format (PDF, for instance). If this field is checked, the value of the Output filename
expression field is meaningless.
You can use multiple map items with the atlas generation; each map will be rendered according to the coverage
features. To enable atlas generation for a specific map item, you need to check Controlled by Atlas under the
item properties of the map item. Once checked, you can set:
A Margin around feature that allows you to select the amount of space added around each geometry
within the allocated map. Its value is meaningful only when using the auto-scaling mode.
A Predefined scale (best fit). It will use the best fitting option from the list of predefined scales in your
project properties settings (see Project > Project Properties > General > Project Scales to configure
these predefined scales).
A Fixed scale that allows you to toggle between auto-scale and fixed-scale mode. In fixed-scale mode,
the map will only be translated for each geometry to be centered. In auto-scale mode, the maps extents are

computed in such a way that each geometry will appear in its entirety.
Etiquetas
In order to adapt labels to the feature the atlas plugin iterates over, you can include expressions. What you should
take care of is to place expression part (including functions, fields or variables) between [% and %]. For example,
for a city layer with fields CITY_NAME and ZIPCODE, you could insert this:
The area of [% upper(CITY_NAME) || , || ZIPCODE || is
format_number($area/1000000,2) %] km2
or, another combination:

The area of [% upper(CITY_NAME)%],[%ZIPCODE%] is
[%format_number($area/1000000,2) %] km2
The information [% upper(CITY_NAME) || , || ZIPCODE || is

format_number($area/1000000,2) %] is an expression used inside the label. both expressions
would result in the generated atlas as:
The area of PARIS,75001 is 1.94 km2
Data Defined Override Buttons
Data Defined Override

There are several places where you can use a button to override the selected setting. These
options are particularly useful with Atlas Generation.
Para los siguientes ejemplos la capa Regions del conjunto de datos de ejemplo de QGIS se utiliza y selecciona
para Generacin de Atlas. Tambin asumimos el formato del papel A4 (210X297) es seleccionada en la pestaa
Diseo para el campo Presets.
With a Data Defined Override button you can dynamically set the paper orientation. When the height (north-
south) of the extents of a region is greater than its width (east-west), you rather want to use portrait instead of
landscape orientation to optimize the use of paper.
In the Composition you can set the field Orientation and select Landscape or Portrait. We want to set the orienta-
tion dynamically using an expression depending on the region geometry. Press the button of field Orientation,
select Edit... so the Expression string builder dialog opens. Enter the following expression:
CASE WHEN bounds_width($atlasgeometry) > bounds_height($atlasgeometry)
THEN Landscape ELSE Portrait END
Now the paper orients itself automatically. For each Region you need to reposition the location of the composer
item as well. For the map item you can use the button of field Width to set it dynamically using following
expression:
(CASE WHEN bounds_width($atlasgeometry) > bounds_height($atlasgeometry)
THEN 297 ELSE 210 END) - 20
Use the button of field Height to provide following expression:

THEN 210 ELSE 297 END) - 20
When you want to give a title above the map in the center of the page, insert a label item above the map. First use
the item properties of the label item to set the horizontal alignment to Center. Next activate from Reference
point the upper middle checkbox. You can provide the following expression for field X :
THEN 297 ELSE 210 END) / 2

For all other composer items you can set the position in a similar way so they are correctly positioned when the
page is automatically rotated in portrait or landscape.
Information provided is derived from the excellent blog (in English and Portuguese) on the Data Defined Override
options Multiple_format_map_series_using_QGIS_2.6 .
This is just one example of how you can use the Data Defined Override option.
Previsualizar y generar
Figure 19.51: Barra de herramienta Vista Previa del Atlas
Once the atlas settings have been configured and composer items (map, table, image...) linked to it, you can create
Preview Atlas
a preview of all the pages by clicking Atlas Preview Atlas or icon. You can then use the arrows
in the same toolbar to navigate through all the features:
First feature

Previous feature

Next feature

Last feature

You can also use the combo box to directly select and preview a specific feature. The combo box shows atlas
features name according to the expression set in the atlas Page name option.
As for simple compositions, an atlas can be generated in different ways (see Creating an Output for more infor-
mation). Instead of Composer menu, rather use tools from Atlas menu or Atlas toolbar.
This means that you can directly print your compositions with Atlas Print Atlas. You can also create a PDF
using Atlas Export Atlas as PDF...: The user will be asked for a directory to save all the generated PDF files,
except if the Single file export when possible has been selected. In that case, youll be prompted to give a
filename.
With Atlas Export Atlas as Images... or Atlas Export Atlas as SVG... tool, youre also prompted to select a
folder. Each page of each atlas feature composition is exported to an image or SVG file.
Truco: Print a specific atlas feature

If you want to print or export the composition of only one feature of the atlas, simply start the preview, select the
desired feature in the drop-down list and click on Composer Print (or export... to any supported file format).


CHAPTER 20
Complementos
20.1 Complementos de QGIS
QGIS has been designed with a plugin architecture. This allows many new features and functions to be easily
added to the application. Many of the features in QGIS are actually implemented as plugins.
20.1.1 Core and External plugins
QGIS plugins are implemented either as Core Plugins or External Plugins.

Core Plugins are maintained by the QGIS Development Team and are automatically part of every QGIS distribu-
tion. They are written in one of two languages: C++ or Python.
Most of External Plugins are currently written in Python. They are stored either in the Official QGIS Repository
at http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ or in external repositories and are maintained by the individual authors. Detailed
documentation about the usage, minimum QGIS version, home page, authors, and other important information
are provided for the plugins in the Official repository. For other external repositories, documentation might be
available with the external plugins themselves. In general, external plugins documentation is not included in this
manual.
Installed external python plugins are placed under ~/.qgis2/python/plugins folder. Home directory (de-
noted by above ~) on Windows is usually something like C:\Documents and Settings\(user) (on
Windows XP or earlier) or C:\Users\(user).
Paths to Custom C++ plugins libraries can also be added under Settings Options System.
Puede administrar sus complementos en el dilogo de complementos que se puede abrir con Complementos >
Administrar e instalar complementos....
When a plugin needs to be updated, and if plugins settings have been set up accordingly, QGIS main interface will
display a blue link in the status bar to inform you that there are updates for your plugins waiting to be applied.
20.1.2 El dilogo de complementos
The menus in the Plugins dialog allow the user to install, uninstall and upgrade plugins in different ways. Each
plugin has some metadata displayed in the right panel:
information on whether the plugin is experimental
descripcin
rating vote(s) (you can vote for your preferred plugin!)
etiquetas
some useful links to the home page, tracker and code repository
autor(es)
347
versin disponible
Puede utilizar el filtro para encontrar un complemento especfico.
All
Here, all the available plugins are listed, including both core and external plugins. Use [Upgrade all] to look
for new versions of the plugins. Furthermore, you can use [Install plugin] if a plugin is listed but not installed,
[Uninstall plugin] as well as [Reinstall plugin] if a plugin is installed. An installed plugin can be temporarily
de/activated using the checkbox.
Figure 20.1: The All menu
Installed
En este men, se pueden encontrar solo los complementos instalados. Los complementos instalados pueden ser
desinstalados y reinstalados usando los botones [Desinstalar complemento] y [Reinstalar complemento]. Se
puede [Actualizar todo] aqu tambin.
No instalado
This menu lists all plugins available that are not installed. You can use the [Install plugin] button to implement a
plugin into QGIS.
Upgradeable
If you activated Show also experimental plugins in the Settings menu, you can use this menu to look for
more recent plugin versions. This can be done with the [Upgrade plugin] or [Upgrade all] buttons. Settings
Este men, puede utilizar las siguientes opciones:
Check for updates on startup. Whenever a new plugin or a plugin update is available, QGIS will inform
you every time QGIS starts, once a day, every 3 days, every week, every 2 weeks or every month.
Show also experimental plugins. QGIS will show you plugins in early stages of development, which are
generally unsuitable for production use.
Mostrar tambin complementos obsoletos. Estos complementos estn en desuso y generalmente no

aptos para uso en produccin.
348 Chapter 20. Complementos

Figure 20.2: The Installed menu
Figure 20.3: The Not installed menu
20.1. Complementos de QGIS 349

Figure 20.4: The Upgradeable menu
Para aadir un repositorio de un autor externo, haga clic [Aadir...] en la seccin Repositorios de complementos.
Si no desea uno o ms de los repositorios aadidos, se pueden deshabilitar con el botn [Editar...], o eliminar
completamente con el botn [Borrar]
Note that you can use an authentication (basic authentication, PKI) to access to a plugin repository. The default
QGIS repository is an open repository and you dont need any authentication. You should deploy your own plugin
repository. You can get more information on QGIS authentication support in Autenticacin chapter.
The Search function is available in nearly every menu (except Settings). Here, you can look for specific
plugins.

Figure 20.5: The Settings menu
20.1. Complementos de QGIS 351

20.2 Usar complementos bsicos de QGIS
Icono Complemento Descripcin Manual de referencia

Captura de Captura de coordenadas del ratn en Complemento Captura de
coordenadas diferentes SRC coordenadas
DB Manager Administrar su base de datos dentro Complemento administrador
de QGIS de BBDD
Conversor DXF2Shp Convertir de archivo DXF a formato Complemento Conversor
SHP DxfaShp
eVis Herramienta de visualizacin de Complemento Visualizacin
eventos de Eventos
fTools Un conjunto de herramientas Complemento fTools
vectoriales
Herramientas GDAL Funcionalidad rster GDAL Complemento Herramientas
de GDAL
Comprobador de Verificar y reparar errores en Complemento Comprobador
Geometra geometras vectoriales de geometra
Ajustador de Ajustar geometras a una capa de Complemento
Geometra referencia Autoensamblador de
geometras
Georreferenciador Georeferenciacin de rsteres con Complemento
GDAL GDAL Georreferenciador
Herramientas de GPS Herramientas para cargar e importar Plugin de GPS
datos GPS
GRASS Funcionalidad GRASS Integracion GRASS SIG

Mapa de calor Crear mapa de calor de un capa de Complemento Mapa de calor
puntos de entrada.
Complemento de Interpolacin en base a vtices de Complemento de
interpolacin una capa vectorial interpolacin
Cliente de Catlogo Interactuar con metadata catalogue Cliente de Catlogo de
Metabsqueda services (CSW) metasearch
Edicin fuera de Edicin fuera de lnea y Complemento Edicin fuera
lnea sincronizacin con la base de datos de linea
Georaster Espacial de Acceso a Georasters Espaciales de Complemento GeoRaster
Oracle Oracle espacial de Oracle
Administrar Administrar complementos ncleo y El dilogo de complementos
complementos externos
Procesamiento Entorno de trabajo de procesado de Entorno de trabajo de
|geoproce-
datos espaciales procesamiento de QGIS
samiento|
Anlisis del terreno Calcular entidades geomorfolgica Complemento Anlisis de
rster de un DEMs Terreno
Complemento Grafo Anlisis de la ruta ms corta Complemento Grafo de rutas
de rutas
Consulta espacial Consulta espacial en vectores Complemento Consulta
espacial
Comprobador de Encontrar errores topolgicos en topologa
Topologa capas vectoriales
Estadsticas de zona Calcular estadsticas de rster para Complemento de
polgonos. Estadsticas de zona
20.3 Complemento Captura de coordenadas
El complemento de captura de coordenadas es fcil de usar y proporciona la capacidad de mostrar coordenadas en

la vista del mapa para dos sistemas de referencia de coordenadas (SRC).
Figure 20.6: Complemento Captura de coordenadas
1. Inicie QGIS, seleccione Propiedades del proyecto desde el men Configuracin (KDE, Windows) o
Proyecto (Gnome, OSX) y haga clic en la pestaa Proyeccin. Como una alternativa, tambin puede hacer
SRC estado
clic en el icono en la esquina inferior derecha de la barra de estado.
2. Pulse en la casilla de verificacin Activar transformacin de SRC al vuelo y seleccione un sistema de

coordenadas proyectadas de su eleccin (vea tambin Trabajar con Proyecciones)
3. Activar el complemento de Captura de coordenadas en el Administrador de complementos (vea El dilogo
de complementos) y asegrese que el dilogo es visible, vaya a Ver Paneles y y asegrese que Captura
de coordenadas est habilitada. El dilogo de captura de coordenadas aparece como se muestra en la Figura
figure_coordinate_capture_1. Alternativamente, tambin puede ir a Vectorial Captura de coordenadas y
vea si Captura de coordenadas est habilitada.
Pulse para seleccionar el SRC a usar para la visualizacin de coordenadas

4. Haga clic en el icono y elija un SRC diferente al
que seleccion anteriormente.
5. Para empezar a capturar coordenadas, pulse [Comenzar captura]. Ahora puede hacer clic en cualquier
lugar de la vista del mapa y el complemento mostrar las coordenadas en ambos SRC seleccionados.
Seguimiento del ratn

6. Para habilitar el seguimiento de coordenadas del ratn, pulse el icono .
7. Tambin se pueden copiar las coordenadas seleccionadas al portapapeles.
20.4 Complemento administrador de BBDD
The DB Manager Plugin is officially part of the QGIS core and is intended to be the main tool to integrate and
manage spatial database formats supported by QGIS (PostGIS, SpatiaLite, Geopackage, Oracle Spatial, Virtual
DB Manager
layers) in one user interface. The Plugin provides several features. You can drag layers from the
QGIS Browser into the DB Manager, and it will import your layer into your spatial database. You can drag and
drop tables between spatial databases and they will get imported.
El men Base de datos permite conectar a una base de datos existente, para iniciar la ventana de SQL y para
finalizar el componente de Administrador de BBDD. Una vez que este conectado a la base de datos existente, los
mens Esquema y Tabla aparecer de forma adicional.
EL men Esquema incluye herramientas para crear y eliminar (vaciar) esquemas y, si la topologa esta disponible
(e.j., PostGIS 2), iniciar un TopoViewer.
El men Tabla permite crear y editar tablas y eliminar tablas y vistas. Tambin es posible vaciar tablas y moverlas
de un esquema a otro. Como funcin adicional, se puede realizar un VACUUM y luego un ANALYZE para cada
tabla seleccionada. VACUUM simplemente recupera espacio y hace que este disponible para reusarlo. ANALYZE
actualiza las estadisticas para determinar la forma ms eficiente de ejecutar una consulta. Finalmente, se pueden
20.3. Complemento Captura de coordenadas 353

Figure 20.7: Dilogo del complemento administrador de BBDD
importar capas/archivos, si estan cargados en QGIS o existen en el sistema de archivos. Y se puede exportar tablas
de la base de datos a archivo vectorial con la funcin Exportar archivo.
The Tree window lists all existing databases supported by QGIS. With a double-click, you can connect to the
database. With the right mouse button, you can rename and delete existing schemas and tables. Tables can also be
added to the QGIS canvas with the context menu.
Si se est conectado a una base de datos, la ventana principal del Administrador de BBDD ofrece tres pestaas.
La pestaa Info proporciona informacin acerca de la tabla y su geometra, as como de los campos existentes,
limitaciones e ndices. Tambin permite que ejecute Vacuum Analyze y crear ndices espaciales en una tabla
seleccionada, si no est ya hecho. La pestaa de Tabla muestra todos los atributos y la pestaa Vista preliminar
representa las geometras como vista previa.
20.4.1 Trabajar con la ventana SQL
You can also use the DB Manager to execute SQL queries against your spatial database and then view the spatial
output for queries by adding the results to QGIS as a query layer. It is possible to highlight a portion of the SQL
and only that portion will be executed when you press F5 or click the Execute (F5) button.
20.5 Complemento Conversor DxfaShp
El complemento Conversor DxfaShp se puede usar para convertir datos vectoriales del formato DXF a archivo
shape. Requiere que se especifiquen los siguientes parmetros antes de ejecutarlo:
Archivo DXF de entrada: Introduzca la ruta al archivo DXF a convertir.
Archivo shp de salida: Introduzca el nombre deseado para el archivo shape a crear.
Tipo de archivo de salida: Especificar el tipo de geometra del archivo de salida. Actualmente los tipos
soportados son polilneas, polgonos y puntos.

Figure 20.8: Executing SQL queries in the DB Manager SQL window
Figure 20.9: Complemento Conversor DxfaShp
20.5. Complemento Conversor DxfaShp 355

Exportar etiquetas de texto: Cuando esta casilla de verificacin esta habilitada, se crear una capa de
puntos adicional, y la tabla DBF asociada contendr informacin sobre los campos texto que se encuentran
en el archivo DXF y las cadenas de texto en s.
20.5.1 Usar el complemento
1. Inicie QGIS, cargue el complemento Dxf2Shape en el Administrador de complementos (vea El dil-

Dxf2Shape Converter
ogo de complementos) y haga clic sobre el icono , que aparece en el men de la
barra de herramientas QGIS. El dilogo del complemento Dxf2Shape aparecer, como se muestra en Fig-
ure_dxf2shape_1.
2. Introduzca el archivo DXF de entrada, un nombre para el archivo shape de salida y el tipo de archivo shape.
3. Habilitar la casilla de verificacin Exportar etiquetas de texto si desea crear una capa extra de puntos
con etiquetas.
4. Hacer clic en [Aceptar]
20.6 Complemento Visualizacin de Eventos
(En esta seccin se deriva de Horning, N., K, Koy, P. Ersts. 2009. eVis (v1.1.0) Gua de Usuario.
Museo Americano de Historia Natural, Centro para la Biodiversidad y Conservacin. Disponible de
http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/, y realizado bajo GNU FDL.)
El mecanismo de informacin sobre biodiversidad en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural(AMNH) Centro
para la Biodiversidad y la Conservacin (CBC) ha desarrollado la herramienta de visualizacin de eventos (eVis),
otra herramienta de software para aadir al suite de monitoreo de conservacin y herramienta de apoyo a las
decisiones para guiar un rea protegida y la planificacin del paisaje. Este complemento permite a los usuarios
enlazar fcilmente la geocodificacin (es decir., se hacer referencia con latitud y longitud o coordenadas X y Y)
de fotografas, y otros documentos de apoyo, a los datos vectoriales en QGIS.
eVis ahora esta instalado automticamente y habilitado en nuevas versiones de QGIS, y como todos los dems
complementos, se puede habilitar y deshabilitar utilizando el Administrador de Complementos (ver El dilogo de
complementos).
El complemento de visualizacin de eventos se compone de tres mdulos: la Herramienta para conexin a la base
de datos, Herramienta de ID evento, y el Eventos del navegador. Estos trabajan juntos para permitir la visual-
izacin de fotografas geocodificadas y otros documentos que estn vinculados a objetos espaciales almacenados
en archivo de vectores, base de datos o hojas de clculo.
20.6.1 Explorador de Eventos
El mdulo del explorador de eventos proporciona la funcionalidad para desplegar fotografas geocodificadas que
estn enlazadas con objetos espaciales vectoriales en la ventada de mapa de QGIS. Datos especficos por ejemplo,
pueden ser desde un archivo vectorial que se pueden ingresar mediante QGIS o puede ser a partir del resultado de
una consulta de base de datos. El objeto espacial vectorial debe tener informacin de atributos asociados con l
para describir la ubicacin y el nombre del archivo que contiene la fotografa y opcionalmente la direccin de la
brjula de la cmara que se indico cuando fue adquirida la imagen . Su capa vectorial debe estar cargada en QGIS
antes de ejercitar el explorador de eventos.
Iniciar el mdulo de Explorador de eventos
Para poner en marcha el modulo Explorador de Eventos, haga clic en Base de datos eVis Explorador de
Eventos eVis. Esto abrir la ventana Explorador de Eventos Genrico.
La ventana Explorador de eventos tiene tres pestaas desplegadas en la parte superior de la ventana. La pestaa Vi-
sualizar se utiliza para ver las fotografas y los datos de sus atributos asociados. La pestaa Opciones proporciona

un nmero de ajustes para controlar el funcionamiento del complemento eVis. Por ltimo, la pestaa Config-
uracin de aplicaciones externas se utiliza para mantener una tabla de extensiones de archivos y su aplicacin
asociada para permitir a eVis desplegar documentos que no sean imgenes.
Comprender la ventana Visualizar
Para ver la ventana Visualizar, haga clic en la pestaa Visualizar en la ventana Explorador de Eventos. La ventana
Visualizar se utiliza para visualizar las fotografas geocodificadas y los atributos asociados a ellas.
Figure 20.10: La ventana de eVis visualizar
1. Ventana de Visualizar: Una ventana donde la fotografa aparece.

2. Botn de Acercar zoom: Acercar zoom para ver ms detalle. Si la imagen completa no puede ser visual-
izada en la ventana de visualizar, las barras de desplazamiento aparecern en del lado izquierdo e inferior
de la ventana para permitirle desplazarse por la imagen.
3. Botn de Alejar zoom: Alejar zoom para ver ms rea.
4. Botn Zum general: Despliega la fotografa completa.
5. Ventana de informacin de atributos: Toda la informacin de atributos del punto asociado con la foto que
se est viendo se muestra aqu. Si el tipo de archivo al que hace referencia del registro mostrado no es una
imagen sino un tipo de archivo definido en la pestaa Configurar aplicaciones externas cuando haga doble
clic en el valor del campo que contiene la ruta al archivo se abrir la aplicacin para ver u or el contenido
del archivo. Si se reconoce la extensin del archivo los datos de los atributos se mostrarn en verde.
6. Botones de Navegacin: Utiliza el botn anterior y siguiente para cargar el objeto anterior o siguiente
cuando mas de un objeto espacial esta seleccionado.
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Comprender la ventana de Opciones
Figure 20.11: La ventana de eVis Opciones
1. Ruta del archivo: Una lista desplegable para especificar el campo de atributo que contiene la ruta del
directorio o URL para las fotografas u otros documentos que se muestran. Si la ubicacin es una ruta
relativa, entonces la casilla de verificacion debe hacer clic. LA ruta base para una ruta relativa puede ser
introducida en la caja de texto Ruta Base a continuacin. La informacin sobre las diferentes opciones
para especificar la ubicacin del archivo se indica en la seccin Especificar la ubicacin y nombre de la
fotografa a continuacin.
2. Rumbo de la brjula: Una lista desplegable para especificar el campo de atributo que contiene el rumbo
de la brjula asociado con las fotografas que se muestran. Si la informacin del rumbo de la brjula esta
disponible, es necesario hacer clic en casilla de verificacin a continuacin el ttulo del men desplegable.
3. Desplazamiento de la brjula: El desplazamiento de la brjula se puede utilizar para compensar la de-
clinacin (para ajustar los rodamientos recolectados usando cojinetes magnticos para el rumbo del norte
verdadero). Haga clic en el botn de radio Manual para ingresar el desplazamiento en la caja de texto
o haga clic en el botn de radio De atributo para seleccionar el campo del atributo que contiene los de-
splazamientos. Para ambas opciones, declinaciones del este deben introducirse utilizando valores positivos,
y declinaciones al oeste deben utilizar valores negativos.
4. Ruta del archivo: La ruta de la base sobre la que se aadir la ruta relativa se define en Figure_eVis_2 (A).
5. Sustituir la ruta: Si esta casilla de verificacin esta marcada, solo el nombre del archivo de A se anexar a
la ruta base.
6. Aplicar regla a todos los documentos: Si se marco, las mismas reglas de ruta que estn definidas para
las fotografas se utilizarn para los documentos sin imagen, tales como pelculas, documentos de texto
y archivos de sonido. Si no se marca, las reglas de ruta slo se aplicarn a las fotografas, y los otros
documentos ignorarn el parmetro de la ruta base.

7. Recordar ajustes: Si la casilla de verificacin es marcada, los valores de los parmetros asociados se
guardarn para la siguiente sesin cuando la ventana se cierra o cuando el botn [Guardar] de abajo sea
presionado.
8. Restablecer: Restablecer los valores en esta lnea a la configuracin predeterminada.
9. Restaurar los valores predeterminados: Esto restablecer todos los campos a su configuracin predeter-
minada. Tiene el mismo efecto hacer clic en todos los botones de [Restablecer].
10. Guardar: Esto guardar los ajustes sin cerrar el panel Opciones.
Comprender la ventana de Configurar aplicaciones externas
Figure 20.12: La ventana de eVis Aplicaciones externas
1. Tabla de referencia de archivo: Una tabla contiene los tipos de archivo que se pueden abrir utilizando
eVis. Cada tipo de archivo necesita una extensin de archivo y la ruta de una aplicacin que pueda abrir ese
tipo de archivo. Esto proporciona la capacidad de abrir una amplia gama de archivos tales como pelculas,
grabaciones sonoras y documentos de texto en lugar de solo imgenes.
2. Aadir nuevo tipo de archivo: Aadir un nuevo tipo de archivo con una nica extensin y la ruta para la
aplicacin que puede abrirlo.
3. Borrar la fila actual: Borrar el tipo de archivo destacado en la tabla y definido por una extensin de archivo
y una ruta a una aplicacin asociada.
20.6.2 Especificar la ubicacin y nombre de la fotografa
La ubicacin y nombre de la fotografa se pueda almacenar utilizando una ruta relativa o absoluta, o una URL,
si la fotografa esta disponible en el servidor web. Ejemplos de los diferentes enfoques estn listados en la tabla
evis_examples.
X Y FILE BEARING
780596 1784017 C:\Workshop\eVis_Data\groundphotos\DSC_0168.JPG 275
780596 1784017 /groundphotos/DSC_0169.JPG 80
780819 1784015 http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/\
evis_testdata/DSC_0170.JPG 10
780596 1784017 pdf:http://www.testsite.com/attachments.php?\
attachment_id-12 76
20.6.3 Especificar la ubicacin y nombre de otros documentos soportados
Los documentos de apoyo tales como documentos de texto, videos, y clips de sonido tambin se pueden visualizar
o reproducir por eVis. Para ello, es necesario aadir una entrada en el archivo de tabla de referencia que se puede
acceder desde la ventana Configurar Aplicaciones Externas en el :guilabel:Generic Event Browser que coincide

con la extensin de archivo a una aplicacin que se puede utilizar para abrir el archivo. Tambin es necesario
disponer de la ruta o URL para el archivo en la tabla de atributos de la capa vectorial. Una regla adicional que
puede ser utilizada para las direcciones URL que no contienen una extensin de archivo para el documento que
desea abrir es especificar la extensin del archivo antes de la URL. El formato es file extension:URL.
La URL es precedida por la extensin de archivo y dos puntos; esto es particularmente til para el acceso a los
mismos a partir de los wikis y otros sitios web que utilizan una base de datos para gestionar las pginas web (vase
Table evis_examples).
20.6.4 Utilizar el Explorador de eventos
Cuando la ventana :guilabel: Navegador de Eventos se abre, una fotografa aparecer en la pantalla si el documento
se hace referencia en la tabla de atributos de archivo vectorial es una imagen y si la informacin de la ubicacin
del archivo en la ventana Opciones es correctamente establecida. Si se espera una fotografa y no aparece, ser
necesario ajustar los parmetros en la ventana :guilabel: Opciones.
Si un documento de apoyo (o una imagen que no tiene una extensin de archivo reconocido por eVis) se hace
referencia en la tabla de atributos, el campo que contiene la ruta del archivo se resaltar en verde en la ventana de
informacin de atributos si esa extensin de archivo se define en el archivo de la tabla de referencia se encuentra
en la ventana Configurar Aplicaciones Externas. Para abrir el documento, haga doble clic en la lnea verde
resaltado en la ventana de informacin de atributos. Si un documento de apoyo se hace referencia en la ventana
de informacin de atributos y la ruta del archivo no est resaltado en verde, entonces ser necesario aadir una
entrada para la extensin de nombre de archivo del archivo en la ventana Configurar Aplicaciones Externas. Si la
ruta del archivo se resalta en verde, pero no se abre al hacer doble clic, ser necesario ajustar los parmetros en la
ventana :guilabel: Opciones por lo que el archivo puede ser localizado por eVis.
Si no se proporciona una brjula en la ventana :guilabel: Opciones, un asterisco rojo se mostrar en la parte
superior de la caracterstica de vector que se asocia con la fotografa que se muestra. Si se proporciona una
brjula, a continuacin, aparecer una flecha apuntando en la direccin indicada por el valor en el campo de
visualizacin de brjula en la ventana :guilabel: Navegador de Eventos. La flecha estar centrado sobre el punto
que se asocia con la fotografa u otro documento.
Para cerrar la ventana Explorador de eventos, haga clic en el botn [Cerrar] de la ventana Visualizar.
20.6.5 Herramienta ID evento
El mdulo Evento ID le permite mostrar una fotografa al hacer clic en un objeto espacial mostrado en la ventana
de mapa de QGIS. El objeto espacial vectorial debe tener informacin de atributos asociada a l para describir la
ubicacin y nombre del archivo que contiene la fotografa y, opcionalmente, la direccin de la brjula de la
cmara que se estableci cuando fue adquirida la imagen. Esta capa debe cargarse en QGIS antes de ejecutar la
herramienta Evento ID
Iniciar el mdulo ID evento
Evento ID
Para iniciar el mdulo Evento ID, haga clic en el icono o haga clic en Base de datos eVis
Herramienta de ID de evento eVis. Esto har que el cursor cambie a una flecha con una i en la parte superior de
la misma que significa que la herramienta de ID de evento est activa.
Para ver las fotografas enlazadas a los elementos vectoriales en la capa vectorial activa mostrada en la ventana del
mapa de QGIS, mueva el cursor del Event ID sobre el objeto espacial y entonces haga clic con el ratn. Despus
haga clic sobre el objeto espacial, la ventana Explorador de eventos se abre y las fotografas en o cerca del lugar
seleccionado estn disponibles para desplegarse en el explorador. Si ms de una fotografa esta disponible, y
puede recorrer las diferentes caractersticas utilizando los botones [Anterior] y [Siguiente]. Los otros controles
se describen en la seccin Explorador de Eventos de esta gua.

20.6.6 Conexin a base de datos
El mdulo Conexin a base de datos proporciona herramientas para conectar a y consultar una base de datos u
otros recursos ODBC, tales como una hoja de clculo.
eVis puede conectar directamente a los siguientes tipos de base de datos: PostgreSQL, MySQL, y SQLite; tambin
puede leer desde conexiones ODBC (por ejemplo, MS Access). Al leer desde una base de datos ODBC (por
ejemplo una hoja de Excel), es necesario configurar su driver ODBC para el sistema operativo que est utilizando
Iniciar el mdulo de Conexin a base de datos
Conexin a base de datos eVis

Para iniciar el mdulo Conexin a base de datos, haga clic en el icono apropiado o
haga clic en Base de datos eVis Conexin a base de datos eVis. Esto abrir la ventana Conexin a base
de datos. La ventana tiene tres pestaas: Consultas predefinidas, Conexin a base de datos, y Consulta SQL. La
ventana Consola de salida en la parte inferior de la ventana, muestra el estado de las acciones iniciadas por las
diferentes secciones de este mdulo.
Conectar a una base de datos
Haga clic en la pestaa Conexin a la base de datos para abrir la interfaz de conexin a base de datos. A contin-
uacin, utilice la lista desplegable Tipo de base de datos para seleccionar el tipo de base de datos al que
desea conectarse. Si una contrasea o nombre de usuario es necesario, esa informacin puede ser ingresada en las
cajas de texto Nombre de usuario y Contrasea
Introduzca el host de base de datos en el cuadro de texto :guilabel: Host de Base de Datos. Esta opcin no est
disponible si ha seleccionado MS Access como el tipo de base de datos. Si la base de datos reside en su equipo,
usted debe seleccionar localhost.
Introducir el nombre de la base de datos en la caja de texto Nombre de la base de datos. Si seleccion ODBC
como el tipo de base de datos, es necesario introducir el nombre de la fuente de datos.
Cuando todos los parmetros estn llenos, haga clic en el botn [Conectar]. Si la conexin es satisfactoria, un
mensaje se escribir en la ventana Consola de salida, inicia que la conexin fue establecida. Si una conexin no
se establece, se necesita comprobar los parmetros correctos fueron insertados anteriormente.
1. Tipo de base de datos: Una lista desplegable para especificar el tipo de base de datos que se utilizar.
2. Host de la base de datos: El nombre del host de la base de datos.
3. Puerto: El numero de puerto si una un tipo de base de datos MySQL o PostgreSQL es seleccionado.
4. Nombre de la base de datos: EL nombre de la base de datos.
5. Conectar: Un botn para conectar a la base de datos utilizando los parmetros definidos anteriormente.
6. Salidas a la Consola: La ventana de consola donde los mensajes relacionados a procesos son mostrados.
7. Nombre del Usuario: Nombre del usuario para utilizar cuando una base de datos este protegida con con-
trasea.
8. Contrasea: Para usar cuando la base de datos esta protegida con contrasea.
9. Consultas predefinidas: Pestaa para abrir la ventana Consultas Predefinidas.
10. Conexin a base de datos: Pestaa para abrir la ventana Conexin a base de datos.
11. Consulta SQL: Pestaa para abrir la ventana Consulta SQL.
12. Ayuda: Muestra la ayuda en lnea.
13. Aceptar: Cierra la ventana principal Conexin a Base de datos

Figure 20.13: La ventana de conexin a base de datos eVis
Ejecutar consultas SQL
Se utilizan consultas SQL para extraer informacin de una base de datos o un recurso ODBC. En eVis, la salida
de estas consultas es una capa vectorial aadida a la ventana de mapa de QGIS. Haga clic en la pestaa Consulta
SQL para mostrar la interfaz de consulta SQL. Los comandos SQL se pueden introducir en esta ventana de texto.
Un tutorial til sobre comandos SQL est disponible en http://www.w3schools.com/sql. Por ejemplo, para extraer
todos los datos de una hoja de clculo de un archivo Excel, select * from [sheet1$] donde sheet1 es
el nombre de la hoja de clculo.
Haga clic en el botn [Ejecutar Consulta] para ejecutar el comando. Si la consulta es satisfactoria, una ventana
Seleccin de archivo de base de datos se mostrar. Si la consulta no es satisfactoria, aparecer un mensaje de error
en la ventana Consola de salida.
En la ventana Seleccin de archivo de base de datos, introduzca el nombre de la capa que ser creada de los
resultados de la consulta en la caja de texto Nombre de la nueva capa
1. Ventana de texto de consulta SQL: Una pantalla para consultas tipo SQL.
2. Ejecutar consulta: El botn para ejecutar la consulta introducida en la Consulta SQL.
3. Consola de salida: La consola de salida donde se muestran los mensajes relacionados con el procesamiento.
5. Aceptar: Cierra la ventana principal Conexin a base de datos.
Utilice la lista desplegable Coordenada X Coordenada Y para seleccionar los campos de la base de
datos que almacena las coordenadas X (o longitud) y Y (o latitud). Hacer clic en el botn [Aceptar] hace que la
capa vectorial creada a partir de la consulta SQL se muestre en la ventana de mapa de QGIS.
Para guardar este archivo vectorial y usarlo en el futuro, se puede utilizar el comando de QGIS Guardar como...
que se accede haciendo clic derecho sobre el nombre de la capa en la leyenda del mapa de QGIS y despus
seleccione Guardar como...

Figure 20.14: La pestaa Consulta SQL de eVis
Truco: Crear una capa vectorial de una Hoja de clculo de Microsoft Excel
Al crear una capa vectorial de una hoja de clculo Microsoft Excel, es posible ver que los ceros no deseados (0)
hayan sido insertados en las filas de la tabla de atributos debajo de datos vlidos. Esto puede ser causado por la
supresin de los valores de estas celdas en Excel utilizando la tecla Espacio. Para corregir este problema, es
necesario abrir el archivo de Excel (que necesita para cerrar QGIS si est conectado al archivo, que le permite
editarlo) y luego usar Edicin Borrar para eliminar las filas en blanco del archivo. Para evitar este problema,
puede simplemente eliminar varias filas en la hoja de Excel usando Edicin Borrar antes de guardar el archivo.
Ejecutar consultas predefinidas
Con las consultas predefinidas, se pueden seleccionar consultas escritas previamente almacenadas en un archivo
de formato XML. Esto es particularmente til, si no esta familiarizado con comandos SQL. Haga clic en la pestaa
Consultas predefinidas para visualizar la interfaz de consultas predefinidas.
Abrir archivo
Para cargar un conjunto de consultas predefinidas, haga clic en el icono . Este abrir la ventana Abrir
archivo, que se utiliza para localizar el archivo que contiene las consultas SQL. Cuando se cargan las consultas,
sus ttulos definidos en el archivo XML aparecern en el men desplegable situado justo debajo del icono
Abrir archivo
. La descripcin completa de la consulta se mostrar en la ventana de texto en el men desplegable.
Seleccione la consulta que desee ejecutar del men desplegable y despus haga clic en la pestaa Consulta SQL
para ver las consultas que se han estado cargando en la ventana de consultas. Si es la primera vez puede ejecutar
una consulta predefinida o esta cambiando a base de datos, necesita estar seguro para conectarse a la base de datos.
Haga clic en el botn [Ejecutar consulta] en la pestaa Consulta SQL para ejecutar el comando. Si la consulta
es satisfactoria, una ventana Seleccin de archivo de base de datos se mostrar. Si la consulta no es satisfactoria,
aparecer un mensaje de error en la ventana Consola de salida

Figure 20.15: La pestaa de eVis Consultas predefinidas
1. Abrir Archivo: Iniciar el archivo Abrir Archivo navegar para buscar el archivo XML manteniendo las
consultas predefinidas.
2. Consultas predefinidas: Una lista desplegable con todas las consultas definidas por el archivo XML de
3. Descripcin de consulta: Una descripcin corta de la consulta. Esta descripcin es del archivo XML de
4. Consola de salida: La consola de salida donde se muestran los mensajes relacionados con el procesamiento.
6. Aceptar: Cierra la ventana principal Conexin a Base de datos
El formato XML para consultas predefinidas eVis
Las etiquetas XML ledas por eVis

Etiquetas Descripcin
Consulta Definir el inicio y fin de una sentencia de consulta.
Descripcin Una descripcin corta de la consulta que aparece en el men desplegable de eVis.
corta
Descripcin Una descripcin ms detallada de la consulta desplegada en la ventana de texto de consulta
predefinida.
Tipo de base El tipo de la base de datos, definido en el men desplegable de Tipo de base de datos en la
de datos pestaa de Conexin a base de datos.
Puerto El puerto como se define en el cuadro de texto Puerto en la pestaa de Conexin a base de
datos.
Nombre de la El nombre de la base de datos como se define en el cuadro de texto en la pestaa de
base de datos Conexin a base de datos.
Nombre de El nombre de usuario de la base de datos como se define en el cuadro de texto Nombre de
usuario usuario en la pestaa de Conexin a base de datos.
databasepass- La contrasea de la base de datos como se define en el cuadro de texto Contrasea en la
word pestaa Conexin a base de datos.
Sentencia sql El comando SQL
autoconectar Una bandera (verdadero o falso) para especificar si las etiquetas anteriores deben
utilizarse para conectarse automticamente a la base de datos sin ejecutar la rutina de
conexin de base de datos en la solapa Conexin de Base de Datos.
Se muestra un archivo XML de ejemplo completo con tres preguntas a continuacin:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doc>
<query>
<shortdescription>Import all photograph points</shortdescription>
<description>This command will import all of the data in the SQLite database to QGIS
</description>
<databasetype>SQLITE</databasetype>
<databasehost />
<databaseport />
<databasename>C:\textbackslash Workshop/textbackslash
eVis\_Data\textbackslash PhotoPoints.db</databasename>
<databaseusername />
<databasepassword />
<sqlstatement>SELECT Attributes.*, Points.x, Points.y FROM Attributes LEFT JOIN
Points ON Points.rec_id=Attributes.point_ID</sqlstatement>
<autoconnect>false</autoconnect>
</query>
<query>
<shortdescription>Import photograph points "looking across Valley"</shortdescription>
<description>This command will import only points that have photographs "looking across
a valley" to QGIS</description>
<databasehost />
<databaseport />
<databasename>C:\Workshop\eVis_Data\PhotoPoints.db</databasename>
Points ON Points.rec_id=Attributes.point_ID where COMMENTS=Looking across
valley</sqlstatement>
</query>
<query>
<shortdescription>Import photograph points that mention "limestone"</shortdescription>
<description>This command will import only points that have photographs that mention
"limestone" to QGIS</description>
<databasehost />
<databaseport />

<databasename>C:\Workshop\eVis_Data\PhotoPoints.db</databasename>
Points ON Points.rec_id=Attributes.point_ID where COMMENTS like %limestone%
</sqlstatement>
</query>
</doc>
20.7 Complemento fTools
El objetivo del complemento fTools Python es proporcionar un recurso integral para muchas tareas comunes de
SIG basados en vectores, sin necesidad de software adicional, bibliotecas, o complejas soluciones temporales.
Proporciona un conjunto cada vez mayor de las funciones de gestin y anlisis de datos espaciales que son a la
vez rpidos y funcionales.
fTools esta ahora instalado automticamente y habilitado en nuevas versiones de QGIS, y como con todos los
complementos, se puede inhabilitar y habilitar mediante el Administrador de complementos (vea El dilogo de
complementos). Cuando esta activo, el complemento de fTools aade un men Vector a QGIS, proporcionando
funciones que van de Herramientas de anlisis e investigacin, a herramientas de geometra y geoproceso, as
como varias herramientas tiles de gestin de datos .
20.7.1 Herramientas de Anlisis

Matriz de Medida de distancias entre dos puntos en la capa, y el resultado de salida
distancia como a) Matriz de distancia cuadrada, b) Matriz de distancia lineal, o c)
Matriz de distancia resumen. Puede limitar las distancias de las entidades k
ms cercanas.
Sumar Calcular la suma total de la longitudes de linea para cada polgono de una capa
longitud de vectorial de poligonos.
lneas
Puntos en Contar el nmero de puntos que se encuentran en cada polgono de una capa
polgonos vectorial de polgonos de entrada.
Listar valores Lista de todos los valores nicos en un campo de la capa vectorial de entrada.
nicos
Estadsticas Estadsticas bsicas (media, desviacin estndar, N, suma, CV)en un campo de
|estads- bsicas entrada.
ticas-
Bsicas|
Anlisis del Calcular estadsticas del vecino ms cercano para evaluar el nivel de
vecino ms agregacin en una capa vectorial de puntos.
prximo
Coordenada(s) Calcular el centro medio normal o ponderado de una capa vectorial completa,
media o mltiples entidades basadas en un campo ID nico.
Intersecciones Localizar intersecciones entre lneas, y los resultados de salida como un
de lneas archivo shape de puntos. til para localizar calles o intersecciones de
corrientes, ignora intersecciones de lnea con longitud > 0.
Tabla Ftools 1: Herramientas de Anlisis fTools

20.7.2 Herramientas de investigacin

Seleccin aleatoria Seleccin aleatoria de un nmero n de entidades, o n porcentaje de entidades.
Seleccin aleatoria Seleccin aleatoria de entidades dentro de subconjuntos basado en un campo
dentro de subconjutos ID nico
Puntos aleatorios Generar puntos pseudo-aleatorios ms de una capa de entrada.
Puntos regulares Generar una cuadrcula regular de puntos sobre una regin especfica y
exportarlos como un archivo shape de puntos.
Cuadrcula vectorial Generar una cuadrcula de lnea o polgono en base aun espaciado de
cuadrcula especificada.
Seleccionar por Seleccionar entidades en funcin de su ubicacin con respecto a otra capa
localizacin para formar una nueva seleccin, o sumar o restar de la seleccin actual.
Polgono de la Crear un rectngulo sencillo en la capa de polgono de extensin de una capa
extensin de la capa de entrada rster o vectorial.
Tabla Ftools 2: Herramientas de investigacin fTools
20.7.3 Herramientas de geoproceso

Envolvente(s) Crear un envolvente convexo para una capa de entrada, o en funcin de un campo
convexa(s) ID.
Buffer(s) Crear buffer(s) en torno a las entidades basado en la distancia, o un campo de
distancia.
Interseccin Sobrepone capas de manera que la salida contenga reas donde ambas capas se
cruzan.
Unin sobreponer capas de manera que la salida contenga las reas intersectadas y las
no intersectadas.
Diferencia Sobreponer capas de manera que la salida contenga esas zonas de las capas de
Simtrica entrada y diferencia que no se intersectan.
Cortar Sobreponer capas de tal manera que la salida contenga zonas que cruzo la capa de
corte.
Deferencia Sobreponer capas de tal manera que la salida contenga las zonas que no intersect
la capa de corte.
Disolver Combinar entidades basadas en el campo de entrada. Todas los rasgos con
valores de entrada idnticos se combinan para formar una solo rasgo.
Eliminar Combine entidades seleccionadas con el polgono vecino con el rea ms grande
polgonos o el lmite ms grande en comn.
<<astilla>>
Tabla Ftools3: Herramientas de geoproceso fTools
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20.7.4 Herramientas de geometra
IconoHerramienta Propsito
Comprobar validez Compruebe polgonos para las intersecciones, orificios cerrados, y fijar el orden
de geometra del nodo. Puede elegir el motor utilizado en las opciones del dilogo, la pestaa
de digitalizacin Cambiar el valor de las geometras validas. Hay dos motores:
QGIS y GEOSque tienen una funcionalidad bastante diferente. Otras
herramientas existentes que muestran diferentes resultados: complemento de
revisa topologa y regla no debe tener geometras no vlidas.
Exportar/Aadir Aadir a capa vectorial informacin de geometra de la capa de punto
columnas de (XCOORD, YCOORD), lnea(LONGITUD), o polgono (REA, PERMETRO)
geometra .
Centroides de Calcular los verdaderos centroides de cada polgono en una capa de polgonos de
polgonos entrada.
Triangulacin de Calcular y salida (como polgonos) de la triangulacin Delaunay de una capa
Delaunay vectorial de puntos de entrada.
Polgonos Voronoi Calcular polgonos Voronoi de una capa vectorial de puntos de entrada.
Simplificar Generalizar lneas o polgonos con un algoritmo Douglas-Peucker modificado.
geometras
Densificar Densificar lneas o polgonos al aadir vrtices.
geometras
Multipartes a Convertir entidad multiparte a entidades mltiples de partes sencillas. Crear
partes sencillas polgonos y lneas sencillas
Partes sencillas a Unir mltiples entidades a una sencilla multiparte en base a un campo ID nico.
multiparte
Polgonos a lneas Convertir polgonos a lneas, polgonos multiparte a lneas multiple de parte
sencilla
Lneas a polgonos Convertir lneas a polgonos, lneas multiparte a polgonos de mltiple parte
sencilla.
Extraer nodos Extraer nodos de las capas de lneas y polgonos y la salida de ellos como puntos.
Tabla Ftools 4: Herramientas de geometra fTools
Nota: La herramienta de Simplificar geometra se puede utilizar para borrar nodos duplicados en geometras de
lneas y polgonos. Solo tiene que establecer el parmetro de Tolerancia de simplificado a 0 y esto har el truco.

20.7.5 Herramientas de gestin de datos
IconoHerramienta Propsito
Definir la Especificar el SRC para archivos shape cuyo SRC no ha sido definido.
proyeccin
actual
Unir atributos Unir atributos adicionales a la capa de vectorial en funcin de su relacin espacial.
por localizacin Los atributos de una capa vectorial se adjunta a la tabla de atributo de otra capa y se
exporta como un archivo shape.
Dividir capa Dividir la capa de entrada en varias capas separadas basadas en el campo de entrada.
vectorial
Combinar Combinar varios archivos shape dentro de una carpeta en un nuevo archivo shape
archivos shape basndose en el tipo de capa (punto, linea, polgono)
en uno
Crear ndice Crear un ndice espacial para formatos OGR soportados.
espacial
Tabla Ftools 5: Herramientas de gestin de datos
20.8 Complemento Herramientas de GDAL
20.8.1 Qu son las herramientas GDAL?
El complemento de herramientas GDAL ofrece una GUI para la coleccin de herramientas en Geospatial Data
Abstraction Library, http://gdal.osgeo.org. Estas son las herramientas de gestin rster para consultar, re-proyecto,
urdimbre y combinar una amplia variedad de formatos rster. Tambin se incluyen herramientas para crear una
capa (vector) del contorno, o un relieve sombreado de un rster MDT, y para hacer una VRT (Virtual Raster Tile
en formato XML) a partir de una coleccin de uno o ms archivos rster. Estas herramientas estn disponibles
cuando se instala el complemento y es activado.
La biblioteca GDAL
The GDAL library consists of a set of command line programs, each with a large list of options. Users comfortable
with running commands from a terminal may prefer the command line, with access to the full set of options. The
GDAL Tools plugin offers an easy interface to the tools, exposing only the most popular options.
20.8.2 Lista de Herramientas GDAL
Figure 20.16: La lista del men Herramientas GDAL
20.8. Complemento Herramientas de GDAL 369

Projecciones
Warp Esta utilidad es una imagen de mosaicos, reproyeccin y utilidad deformacin. El programa
(Reproject) puede reproyectar a cualquier proyeccin apoyada, y tambin se puede aplicar GCPs
almacenados con la imagen si la imagen es crudo con informacin de control. Para obtener
ms informacin, se puede leer en el sitio web GDAL http://www.gdal.org/gdalwarp.html
Assign Esta herramienta le permite asignar proyeccin a rsters que ya tengan una referencia
projection geogrfica, que le falte la informacin de la proyeccin. Tambin con su ayuda, es posible
alterar las definiciones de proyeccin existentes. Ambos archivos simples y el modo por lotes
son compatibles. Para obtener ms informacin, por favor visite la pgina de utilidad en el
sitio GDAL http://www.gdal.org/gdalwarp.html.
Extract Esta utilidad te ayuda a extraer informacin de la proyeccin de un archivo de entrada. Si
projection desea extraer informacin de un directorio completo, puede usar el modo por lotes. Este crea
ambos archivos .prj and .wld
Conversin
Este programa fusiona geometras vectoriales (puntos, lneas y polgonos) en la banda(s) rster
Rasterize de una imagen raster. Los vectores se leen de formatos vectoriales reconocidos por OGR. Tenga
en cuenta que los datos vectoriales debe estar en el mismo sistema de coordenadas como los
datos rster; en la reproyeccin al vuelo no se proporciona. Para obtener ms informacin,
consulte http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html.
Poly- Esta utilidad crea polgonos vectoriales para todas las regiones conectadas de pxeles del rster
gonize que comparte un valor de pxel en comn. Cada polgono se crea con un atributo que indica el
valor de pxel de dicho polgono. La utilidad crea el vector de salida de origen de datos si no
existe ya, predeterminado a el formato de archivo shape de ESRI. Ver tambin
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_polygonize.html.
Esta utilidad se puede utilizar para convertir los datos rster entre diferentes formatos, lo que
Translate podra llevar a cabo algunas operaciones como subconjuntos, remuestreo, y reescalar pxeles en
el proceso. Para obtener ms informacin se puede leer en
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html.
RGB Esta utilidad calcular una tabla de pseudocolor ptima para una imagen RGB determinada,
to PCT utilizando un algoritmo de corte medio de un histograma RGB downsampled. Luego se convierte
la imagen en una imagen pseudocoloreada usando la tabla de colores. Esta conversin utiliza
Floyd-Steinberg (difusin de errores) para maximizar la imagen de salida de calidad visual. La
utilidad tambin se describe en http://www.gdal.org/rgb2pct.html.
PCT Esta utilidad convertir una banda pseudocolor en el archivo de entrada en un archivo RGB de
to RGB salida del formato deseado. Para mayor informacin, vea http://www.gdal.org/pct2rgb.html.
Extraccin
Este programa genera un archivo vectorial de curvas de nivel del modelo del terreno rster (MDT).
Con- En http://www.gdal.org/gdal_contour.html, se puede encontrar ms informacin.
tour
Esta utilidad le permite que acorte rsteres (extraer un subconjunto) utilizando una extensin
Clip- seleccionada o en base a lmites de la capa de mscara.. Ms informacin se puede encontrar en
per http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html.

Anlisis
Sieve Esta utilidad elimina polgonos rster ms pequeos que un tamao umbral previsto (en
pxeles) y los reemplaza con el valor del pxel del polgono vecino ms grande. El resultado
se puede escribir de nuevo a la banda del rster existente, o copiado en un nuevo archivo.
Para mayor informacin, vea http://www.gdal.org/gdal_sieve.html.
Near Esta utilidad escanear una imagen y tratar de establecer todos los pxeles que son casi
Black negros (o casi blancos) alrededor del borde para exactamente negro (o blanco). Esto se
utiliza a menudo para arreglar comprimir prdidas de fotos areas de modo que los
pxeles de color se pueden tratar como transparentes cuando se hace el mosaico. Tambin
vea http://www.gdal.org/nearblack.html.
Fill Esta utilidad rellena regiones de rster seleccionadas (generalmente reas sin datos) por
nodata interpolacin de pxeles vlidos alrededor de los bordes de las reas. En
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_fillnodata.html, se puede encontrar ms informacin.
Proximity Esta utilidad genera un mapa rster de proximidad que indica la distancia desde el centro de
cada pxel al centro del pxel ms cercano identificado como un pxel objetivo. Los pixeles
objetivo son los del rster fuente para la cual el valor de pxel del rster est en el conjunto
de valores de pxel objetivo. Para obtener ms informacin, consulte
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_proximity.html.
Grid (In- Esta utilidad crea una cuadrcula regular (rster) a partir de los datos dispersos ledos desde
terpolation) la fuente de datos OGR. Los datos de entrada sern interpolados para rellenar nodos de la
cuadrcula con los valores, y puede elegir entre varios mtodos de interpolacin. La utilidad
tambin se describe en el el sitio web GDAL, http://www.gdal.org/gdal_grid.html.
DEM Herramientas para analizar y visualizar DEMs. Esto puede crear un relieve sombreado,
(Terrain pendiente, orientacin, color de relieve y un indice de irregularidad del terreno, un indice de
models) posicin topogrfica y un mapa de irregularidad de algn rster de elevacin reconocido
GDAL. Para mayor informacin , vea http://www.gdal.org/gdaldem.html.
Miscelnea
Build Virtual Este programa crea un VRT (Conjunto de datos virtual) que es un mosaico de la lista de
Raster (Catalog) conjunto de datos GDAL de entrada. Vea tambin
http://www.gdal.org/gdalbuildvrt.html.
Merge Esta utilidad automticamente har el mosaico un conjunto de imgenes. Todas las
imgenes deben estar en el mismo sistema de coordenadas y tener un nmero
correspondiente de bandas, pero pueden ser superpuestas, y en diferentes resoluciones.
En reas de superposicin, la ltima imagen se copiar en las anteriores. La utilidad
tambin se describe en http://www.gdal.org/gdal_merge.html.
Informacin Esta utilidad muestra diversa informacin acerca de un conjunto de datos rster
GDAL-implementado. En http://www.gdal.org/gdalinfo.html, puede encontrar ms
informacin.
Build La utilidad gdaladdo se puede utilizar para construir o reconstruir las vistas generales
Overviews para los formatos ms compatibles con un de varios algoritmos de disminucin de
resolucin. Para obtener ms informacin, vea http://www.gdal.org/gdaladdo.html.
Tile Index Esta utilidad crea un archivo shape con un registro para cada archivo de entrada rster,
un atributo contiene el nombre del archivo y una geometra de polgono delineando el
rster. Vea tambin http://www.gdal.org/gdaltindex.html.
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Configuracin de herramientas GDAL
Utilice este dilogo para integrar las variables GDAL.
20.9 Complemento Comprobador de geometra
Geometry Checker is a powerful core plugin to check and fix the geometry validity of a layer. The Geometry
Checker dialog show differents grouped settings in the first tab (Settings):
Input vector layer: to select the layer to check. A Only selected features checkbox can filter the geometry
to the one selected.
Geometry validity: give to the user the choice between Self intersections, Duplicate nodes, Polygon with
less than 3 nodes.
Allowed geometry types: to allow only some geometry types like point, multipoint, line, multiline, polygon
and multipolygon.
Geometry properties displays Polygons and multipolygons may not contain any holes and Multipart
objects must consist of more than one part.
Geometry conditions: user can add some condition to validate the geometries with a minimal segment
length, a minimum angle between segment, a minimal polygon area and sliver polygons detection.
Topology checks: checks for duplicates, for features within other features, overlaps smaller than a number,
for gaps smaller than a number.
Tolerance: you can define here the tolerance for the check.
Output vector layer gives the choice to the user how get the result between modifiy the current layer and
create a new layer.
After you are happy with the configuration, you can click on the [Run] button.
The results appear in the second tab and as an overview layer of the errors in the canvas (its name is checker). A
table list the geometry check result with one error by row: the first row is an ID, the second the reason of the error,
then the coordinates of the error, a value (depending on the type of the error) and finally the resolution column
which indicates the resolution of the error. At the bottom of this table, you can export the error into a shapefile.
At the left, you have the number of the errors and the fixed errors.
The Geometry Checker Plugin can find the following errors:
Self intersections: a polygon with a self intersection,
Duplicate nodes: two duplicates nodes in a segment
Holes: hole in a polygon,
Segment length: a segment length lower than a threshold,
Minimum angle: two segments with an angle lower than a threshold,
Minimum area: polygon area lower than a treshold,
Silver polygon: this error come from very small polygon (with small area) with a large perimeter,
Duplicates features,
Feature within feature,
Overlaps: polygon overlapping,
Gaps: gaps between polygons
The following figure shows the different checks made by the plugin.

Figure 20.17: The Geometry Checker Plugin
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Figure 20.18: The Differents checks supported by the plugin

You can select a row to see the localisation of the error. You can change this behaviour by selecting another action
between error (default), Feature, Dont move, and Highlight contour of selected features.
Below the zoom action when clicking on the table row, you can Show the selected features in attribute table, Fix
selected errors using default resolution and Fix selected errors, prompt for resolution method. In the latter, you
will see a window to choose the resolutions method among which:
Combinar con el polgono adyacente con el borde compartido ms largo,
Merge with neighboring polygon with largest area,
Merge with neighboring polygon identical attribute value,if any, or leave as it
Delete feature
No action
Truco: Fix multiple errors

You can fix multiple errors by selecting more than one row in the table with the CTRL + click action.
The default action could be changed with the last icon Error resolution settings. For some type of errors, you can
change the default action between some specific action or No action.
Finally, you can choose which attribute to use when merging features by attribute value.
20.10 Complemento Autoensamblador de geometras
The Geometry Snapper tool allows to align automatically the edges and vertices of one vector layer to the edges
and vertices of a second layer using a user defined tolerance.
The below interface shows the settings of this plugin. User needs to choose the layer to change (see input vector
layer) and the reference layers to snap to. A Maximum snapping distance (map units) allows to change the
snapping tolerance.
You can snap only selected feature(s) checking the Only selected features.
Output vector layer allows you to choose between Modifying input layer or Create a new layer.
Figure 20.19: The Geometry Snapper Plugin
20.10. Complemento Autoensamblador de geometras 375

20.11 Complemento Georreferenciador
El complemento Georreferenciador es una herramienta para generar archivos de referencia de rster. Permite
referenciar los rster a sistemas de coordenadas geogrficas o proyectadas mediante la creacin de un nuevo
GeoTiff o aadiendo un archivo de referencia a la imagen existente. El enfoque bsico para georreferenciar un
rster es localizar puntos del rster para los que se puedan determinar con precisin las coordenadas.
Caractersticas
Abrir rster Comenzar georreferenciado
Generar script de GDAL Cargar puntos PCT
Guardar puntos PCT como Configuracin de la transformacin
Aadir punto Borrar punto
Mover punto PCT Desplazar
Acercar zum Alejar zum
Zum a la capa Zum anterior
Zum siguiente Enlazar georreferenciador a QGIS
Enlazar QGIS a georreferenciador Estiramiento total del histograma

Estiramiento local del histograma
Tabla Georreferenciador 1: Herramientas de Georreferenciador
20.11.1 Procedimiento habitual
Como coordenadas X e Y (GMS (gg mm ss.ss), GG (gg.gg) o coordenadas proyectadas (mmmm.mm)), que
correspondan al punto seleccionado en la imagen, se pueden usar dos procedimientos alternativos:
El propio rster a veces proporciona cruces con coordenadas escritas sobre la imagen. En este caso se
pueden introducir las coordenadas manualmente.
Utilizar capas ya georreferenciadas. Estos pueden ser datos vectoriales o rster que contengan los mismos
objetos/entidades que la imagen que desea georreferenciar y con la proyeccin que desee para su imagen.
En este caso puede introducir las coordenadas haciendo clic en el conjunto de datos de referencia cargado
en el lienzo del mapa de QGIS.
El procedimiento habitual para georreferenciar una imagen consiste en seleccionar mltiples puntos en el rster,
especificando sus coordenadas, y elegir un tipo de transformacin adecuado. Sobre la base de los parmetros y
datos de entrada, el complemento calcular los parmetros del archivo de referencia. Cuantas ms coordenadas
suministre, mejor ser el resultado.
El primer paso es iniciar QGIS, cargar el complemento Georreferenciador (vea El dilogo de complementos) y
haga clic en Rster Georeferenciador, el cual aparece en la barra de men de QGIS. El dilogo del complemento
Georreferenciador aparece como se muestra en figure_georeferencer_1.
Para este ejemplo usaremos una hoja topogrfica de Dakota del Sur del SDGS. Ms tarde se puede visualizar
junto con los datos de la localizacin spearfish60 de GRASS. Puede descargar la hoja topogrfica aqu:
http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/spearfish_toposheet.tar.gz.
Introducir puntos de control sobre el terreno (PCT)
1. Para empezar a georreferenciar un rster no referenciado, debemos cargarlo utilizando el botn . El

rster aparecer en la zona de trabajo principal del dilogo. Una vez que el rster est cargado, podemos
empezar a introducir los puntos de referencia.

Figure 20.20: Dilogo del complemento Georreferenciador
Aadir punto
2. Utilice el botn para aadir puntos en el rea de trabajo principal e introduzca las coordenadas
(vea la Figura figure_georeferencer_2). Para este procedimiento tiene tres opciones:
Hacer clic en un punto de la imagen rster e introducir las coordenadas X e Y manualmente.
Desde lienzo del mapa

Haga clic en un punto de la imagen rster y elija el botn para aadir las coorde-
nadas X e Y con la ayuda de un mapa ya georreferenciado cargado en el lienzo del mapa de QGIS.
Con el botn , puede mover los GCP en ambas ventanas, Si estn en un lugar incorrecto.
3. Continuar introduciendo puntos. Debe tener por lo menos cuatro puntos y cuantas ms coordenadas pueda
proporcionar mejor ser el resultado. Existen herramientas adicionales en el cuadro de dilogo del comple-
mento para hacer zum o desplazar la zona de trabajo con el fin de localizar un conjunto relevante de puntos
PCT.
Figure 20.21: Aadir puntos a la imagen rster
Los puntos que se aaden al mapa se almacenarn en un archivo de texto separado ([nombre del
archivo].points) generalmente junto con la imagen rster. Esto nos permite reabrir el complemento Georef-
erenciador en una fecha posterior y aadir nuevos puntos o eliminar los ya existentes para optimizar el resultado.
20.11. Complemento Georreferenciador 377

El archivo de puntos contiene los valores de los puntos de la forma: mapX, mapY, pixelX, pixelY. Puede
Cargar puntos PCT Guardar puntos PCT como
utilizar los botones y para gestionar los archivos.
Definir la configuracin de la transformacin
Despus de aadir los PCT a la imagen rster, debe definir la configuracin de la transformacin para el proceso
de georreferenciacin.
Figure 20.22: Definir la configuracin de la transformacin del georreferenciador
Algoritmos de transformacin disponibles
Dependiendo del nmero de puntos de control sobre el terreno que haya capturado, es posible que desee utilizar
diferentes algoritmos de transformacin. La eleccin del algoritmo de transformacin tambin depende del tipo
y la calidad de los datos de entrada y la cantidad de distorsin geomtrica que est dispuesto a introducir en el
resultado final.
Actualmente estn disponibles los siguientes Tipos de transformacin:
El algoritmo Lineal se utiliza para crear un archivo de referencia y es diferente de los otros algoritmos, ya
que realmente no trasforma el rster. Este algoritmo probablemente no ser suficiente si se trata de material
escaneado.
La trasformacin Helmert realiza un escalado sencillo y trasformaciones de rotacin.
Los algoritmos Polinomial 1-3 son algunos de los algoritmos ms utilizados introducidos para que coinci-
dan los puntos de control sobre el terreno de origen y destino. El algoritmo polinomial ms ampliamente
utilizado es la transformacin polinomial de segundo orden, que permite cierta curvatura. La transforma-
cin polinomial de primer orden (afn) preserva la colinealidad y permite escalado, traslacin y rotacin
solamente.
El algoritmo Thin Plate Spline (TPS) es un mtodo de georreferenciacin ms moderno, que es capaz de
introducir deformaciones locales en los datos. Este algoritmo es til cuando se georreferencian originales
de muy baja calidad.

La trasformacin Proyectiva es una rotacin lineal y traduccin de coordenadas.
Definir el mtodo de remuestreo
El tipo de remuestreo que elija probablemente depender de los datos de entrada y el objetivo ltimo del ejercicio.
Si no se desea cambiar las estadsticas de la imagen, es posible que desee elegir Vecino ms prximo, mientras
que un Remuestreo cbico probablemente proporcionar un resultado ms suavizado.
Es posible elegir entre cinco diferentes mtodos de remuestreo:
1. Vecino ms prximo
2. Lineal
3. Cbica
4. Spline cbica
5. Lanczos
Definir la configuracin de la trasformacin
Hay varias opciones que deben definirse para el rster de salida georreferenciado.
La casilla de verificacin checkbox| Crear archivo de referencia esta disponible solo si se decide utilizar
la transformacin lineal, porque esto quiere decir que la imagen rster no ser transformada realmente. En
este caso, el campo Rster de salida no se activa, porque solo se crear el nuevo archivo de referencia.
Para todos los otros tipos de transformacin hay que definir un Rster de salida. Por omisin se crear un
nuevo archivo ([nombre de archivo] _modificado) en la misma carpeta junto con la imagen rster original.
Como siguiente paso, tiene que definir el SRE de destino (Sistema de Referencia Espacial) para la imagen
georeferenciada (vea Trabajar con Proyecciones).
Si lo desea, puede generar un mapa en pdf y tambin un informe en pdf. El informe incluye informacin
acerca de los parmetros de trasformacin utilizados, una imagen de los residuos y una lista con todos los
PCT y sus errores RMS.
Adems, puede activar la casilla de verificacin Establecer resolucin de destino y definir la resolucin
del pxel del archivo de salida. Por omisin la resolucin horizontal y vertical es 1.
Se puede activar la casilla Usar 0 para transparencia cuando sea necesario, si los pxeles con valor
0 deben visualizarse trasparentes. En nuestra hoja topogrfica de ejemplo todas las reas blancas seran
transparentes.
Finalmente, Cargar en QGIS cuando est hecho cargar el rster de salida automticamente en la vista
de mapa del QGIS cuando la transformacin este hecha.
Mostrar y adaptar las propiedades del rster
Al hacer clic en el dilogo Propiedades del rster en el men Configuracin se abren las propiedades del rster
de la capa que desea georreferenciar.
Configurar el georreferenciador
Se puede definir si desea mostrar coordenadas GCP y/o IDs.

Como unidades residuales se pueden elegir pxeles y unidades del mapa.
Para el informe PDF puede definir un margen izquierdo y derecho y tambin puede establecer el tamao del
papel para el mapa PDF.
20.11. Complemento Georreferenciador 379

Finalmente, puede activar Mostrar la ventana del Georeferenciador adosada.
Ejecutar la transformacin
Despus de que todos los GCPs hayan sido recopilados y se hayan definido todos los ajustes de transformacin,
Comenzar georeferenciacin
slo presione el botn para crear el nuevo rster georreferenciado.
20.12 Complemento Mapa de calor
El complemento Mapa de calor usa Estimacin de Densidad de Kernel para crear un rster de densidad (mapa de
calor) de una capa de puntos de entrada. La densidad se calcula con base al nmero de puntos en una ubicacin,
de forma que un mayor nmero de puntos agrupados resulta en valores mayores. Los mapas de calor permiten
una fcil identificacin de los puntos calientes y la agrupacin de los puntos.
20.12.1 Activar el complemento Mapa de calor
En primer lugar este complemento ncleo necesita ser activado utilizando el Administrador de Complementos
(vase El dilogo de complementos). Despus de activarlo, el icono de mapa de calor se puede encontrar en
la barra de herramientas de Rster, y bajo el men Rster Mapa de calor.
Seleccione el men Ver Barras de herramientas Rster para mostrar la barra de herramientas Rster, si no
est visible.
20.12.2 Usar el complemento de Mapa de calor
Haga clic en el botn de la herramienta Mapa de calor para abrir el dilogo del complemento Mapa de calor
(vea figure_heatmap_2).
El dilogo tiene las siguientes opciones:
Capa de puntos de entrada: Lista todas las capas vectoriales de puntos del proyecto actual y se usa para
seleccionar la capa a analizar.
Rster de salida: Permite usar el botn para seleccionar la carpeta y el nombre de archivo del rster
de salida que genera el complemento Mapa de calor. La extensin del archivo no es necesaria.
Formato de salida: Selecciona el formato de salida. Aunque se pueden elegir todos los formatos soportados
por GDAL, en la mayora de los casos GeoTIFF es el mejor formato a elegir.
Radio: Se usa para especificar el radio de bsqueda del mapa de calor (o ancho de banda del kernel) en
metros o unidades del mapa. El radio especifica la distancia alrededor de un punto a la que se notar la
influencia del punto. Los valores ms altos dan lugar a un mayor suavizado, mientras que los valores ms
pequeos pueden mostrar detalles y variacin ms finos en la densidad de puntos.
Cuando la casilla de verificacin Avanzado est marcada, hay disponibles opciones adicionales:
Filas y Columnas: Utilizado para cambiar las dimensiones del rster de salida. Estos valores tambin
estn ligados a los valores de Tamao X de celda y Tamao Y de celda. Incrementar el nmero de
filas y columnas disminuir el tamao de la celda e incrementar el tamao del archivo de salida. Los
valores en Filas y Columnas tambin estn vinculados, por lo que duplicar el nmero de filas duplicar
automticamente el nmero de columnas y el tamao de las celdas tambin se reducir a la mitad. El rea
geogrfica del rster de salida seguir siendo el mismo!
Tamao X de celda y Tamao Y de celda: Controlan el tamao geogrfico de cada pxel en el rster de
salida. Cambiar estos valores tambin cambiar el nmero de filas y columnas en el rster de salida.

Forma del kernel: La forma del kernel controla la proporcin en la que la influencia de un punto disminuye
a medida que aumenta la distancia desde el punto. Los diferentes kernels disminuyen en distintas propor-
ciones, por lo que un kernel triweight da mayor peso a las entidades ms prximas al punto de lo que hace
el kernel Epanechnikov. En consecuencia, triweight da como resultado puntos calientes ms afilados y
Epanechnikov da puntos calientes ms suaves. Hay disponible una serie de funciones estndar del kernel
en QGIS, que se describen e ilustran en Wikipedia.
Relacin de decadencia: Se puede utilizar con kernel Triangulares para un mayor control de cmo dismin-
uye el calor de una entidad con la distancia a la misma.
Un valor de 0 (= mnimo) indica que el calor estar concentrado en el centro del radio dado y se
extinguir por completo en el borde.
Un valor de 0.5 indica que a los pxeles del borde del radio se les dar la mitad del calor que a los
pxeles del centro del radio de bsqueda.
Un valor de 1 significa que el calor se distribuye uniformemente por todo el crculo del radio de
bsqueda. (Esto es equivalente al kernel Uniforme.)
Un valor mayor que 1 indica que el calor es mayor hacia el borde del radio de bsqueda que en el
centro.
La capa de puntos de entrada tambin puede tener campos de atributos que pueden afectar la forma en que influyen
en el mapa de calor:
Usar radio a partir de campo: Establece el radio de bsqueda para cada entidad a partir de un campo de
atributos de la capa de entrada.
Usar peso a partir de campo: Permite ponderar las entidades de entrada por un campo de atributos. Esto
se puede utilizar para aumentar la influencia que ciertas entidades tienen en el mapa de calor resultante.
Cuando se especifica un nombre para el archivo rster de salida se puede utilizar el botn [Aceptar] para crear el
mapa de calor.
20.12.3 Tutorial: crear un mapa de calor
Para el siguiente ejemplo usaremos la capa vectorial de puntos airports del conjunto de datos de ejemplo de
QGIS (vea Datos de ejemplo). Otro excelente tutorial de QGIS sobre hacer mapas de calor se puede encontrar en
http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com.
En Figure_Heatmap_1, se muestran los aeropuertos de Alaska.
1. Seleccione el botn de la herramienta Mapa de calor para abrir el dilogo de Mapa de calor (vea
Figure_Heatmap_2).
2. En el campo Capa de puntos de entrada , seleccione airports de la lista de capas de puntos

cargadas en el proyecto actual.
3. Especifique un nombre para el archivo de salida haciendo clic en el botn prximo al campo Rster
de salida. Escriba el nombre del archivo heatmap_airports (no es necesaria la extensin de archivo).
4. Deje el Formato de salida como el formato predeterminado, GeoTIFF.
5. Cambie el Radio a 1000000 metros.
6. Haga clic en [Aceptar] para crear y cargar el mapa de calor de aeropuertos (vea Figure_Heatmap_3).
QGIS generar el mapa de calor y aadir el resultado a la ventana del mapa. Por omisin, el mapa de calor est
sombreado en escala de grises, con las zonas ms claras mostrando una mayor concentracin de aeropuertos. Al
mapa de calor se le puede aplicar ahora un estilo en QGIS para mejorar su apariencia.
1. Abra el dilogo de propiedades de la capa heatmap_airports (seleccione la capa
heatmap_airports, abra el men contextual con el botn derecho del ratn y seleccione Propiedades).
2. Seleccione la pestaa Estilo.
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Figure 20.23: Aeropuertos de Alaska
Figure 20.24: El dilogo del mapa de calor

Figure 20.25: Despus de cargar el mapa de calor se ve como una superficie gris
3. Cambiar el Tipo de representacin a Pseudocolor de una sola banda.
4. Seleccionar una adecuada Mapa de color map , por ejemplo YlOrRed.

5. Haga clic en el botn [Cargar] para recabar los valores mnimo y mximo del rster, despus pulse el botn
[Clasificar].
6. Pulse [Aceptar] para actualizar la capa.
El resultado final se muestra en Figure_Heatmap_4.
20.13 Complemento de interpolacin
El complemento de interpolacin se puede utilizar para generar una interpolacin TIN o IDW de una capa vectorial
de puntos. Es muy fcil de usar y proporciona una interfaz grfica de usuario intuitiva para crear capas rster
interpoladas (ver Figure_interpolation_1). El complemento requiere que se especifiquen los siguientes parmetros
antes de ejecutarlo:
Capas vectoriales de entrada: Especificar las capas vectorial(es) de puntos de entrada a partir de una lista
de capas de puntos cargadas. Si se especifican varias capas, entonces se usarn los datos de todas ellas
para la interpolacin. Nota: es posible insertar lineas o polgonos como restriccin para la triangulacin,
especificando puntos, lneas de estructura o lneas de ruptura en el cuadro combinado Tipo .
Atributo de interpolacin: Seleccionar la columna de atributos a usar para la interpolacin o habilitar la
casilla Usar coordenada-Z para usar los valores Z almacenados en la capa.
Mtodo Interpolacin: Seleccionar el mtodo de interpolacin. Esto puede ser Red Irregular triangulada
(TIN) o Distancia Inversa Ponderada (IDW). Con el mtodo TIN puede crear una superficie formada por
tringulos de puntos vecinos ms cercanos. Para ello, circunferencias circunscritas alrededor de puntos de
muestra seleccionados se crean y sus intersecciones estn conectados a una red de no superposicin y tan
compacto como sea posibles de tringulos. Las superficies resultantes no son lisas. Cuando se utiliza el
mtodo IDW los puntos de muestreo se ponderan durante la interpolacin de tal manera que la influencia de
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Figure 20.26: Estilo de mapa de calor de aeropuertos de Alaska
un punto en relacin con otros disminuye con la distancia desde el punto desconocido que desea crear. El
mtodo de interpolacin IDW tambin tiene algunas desventajas: la calidad del resultado de la interpolacin
puede disminuir, si la distribucin de puntos de datos de la muestra es desigual. Por otra parte, los valores
mximos y mnimos en la superficie interpolada slo pueden ocurrir en los puntos de datos de la muestra.
Esto a menudo resulta en pequeos picos y pozos alrededor de los puntos de datos de la muestra.
Configurar mtodo de interpolacin: Configurar el mtodo de interpolacin que ha elegido. Para
el mtodo TIN se puede elegir entre Lineal y Clough Toucher (cbico). Se puede guardar tambin la
triangulacin en formato de archivo shape. Para la interpolacin IDW se puede establecer el coeficiente de
distancia.
Nmero de columnas/filas: Especificar el nmero de filasy columnas para el archivo rster de salida.
Archivo de salida: Especifica un nombre para el fichero rster de salida.
Aadir el resultado al proyecto para cargar el resultado en la vista del mapa.

Tenga en cuenta que el uso de lneas como las limitaciones para la interpolacin de la triangulacin (mtodo TIN).
Tambin se puede usar lneas de estructura o lneas de rotura. Al usar lneas de rotura se producen roturas en
la superficie mientras utiliza lneas de estructura se producen roturas continuas. La triangulacin es modificada
por ambos mtodos tales que no cruza una lnea de borde de lnea de rotura o estructura.
1. Comenzar QGIS y cargar una capa vectorial de puntos (ej. elevp.csv).

2. Cargar el complemento de interpolacin en el Administrador de complementos (ver El dilogo de comple-
mentos) y de clic sobre el men Rster Interpolacin Interpolacin, que aparece en la barra de
men de QGIS. La ventana de dilogo del complemento de interpolacin aparece como se muestra en la
Figure_interpolation_1.
3. Seleccione una capa de entrada (ej. elevp ) y una columna (ej. ELEV) para interpolacin.

Figure 20.27: Complemento de interpolacin
4. Seleccionar un mtodo de interpolacin( ej. Red Irregular Triangulada (Triangulated Irregular Network-
TIN)) y especificar un tamao de celda de 5000 as como el nombre del archivo rster de salida
(ej.:file:elevation_tin).
5. Pulse [Aceptar].
20.14 Cliente de Catlogo de metasearch
20.14.1 Introduccin
MetaSearch is a QGIS plugin to interact with metadata catalogue services, supporting the OGC Catalogue Service
for the Web (CSW) standard.
MetaSearch provides an easy and intuitive approach and user-friendly interface to searching metadata catalogues
within QGIS.
20.14.2 Instalacin
MetaSearch is included by default with QGIS 2.0 and higher. All dependencies are included within MetaSearch.
Install MetaSearch from the QGIS plugin manager, or manually from http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MetaSearch.
20.14.3 Working with Metadata Catalogues in QGIS
CSW (Catalogue Service for the Web)
CSW (Catalogue Service for the Web) is an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) specification, that defines com-
mon interfaces to discover, browse and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources.
inicio
To start MetaSearch, click icon or select Web MetaSearch MetaSearch via the QGIS main menu. The
MetaSearch dialog will appear. The main GUI consists of three tabs: Services, Search and Settings.
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Figure 20.28: Managing Catalogue Services

Managing Catalogue Services
The Services tab allows the user to manage all available catalogue services. MetaSearch provides a default list of
Catalogue Services, which can be added by pressing [Add default services] button.
To all listed Catalogue Service entries, click the dropdown select box.
To add a Catalogue Service entry, click the [New] button, and enter a Name for the service, as well as the URL
(endpoint). Note that only the base URL is required (not a full GetCapabilities URL). Clicking [OK] will add the
service to the list of entries.
To edit an existing Catalogue Service entry, select the entry you would like to edit and click the [Edit] button, and
modify the Name or URL values, then click [OK].
To delete a Catalogue Service entry, select the entry you would like to delete and click the [Delete] button. You
will be asked to confirm deleting the entry.
MetaSearch allows for loading and saving connections to an XML file. This is useful when you need to share
settings between applications. Below is an example of the XML file format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<qgsCSWConnections version="1.0">
<csw name="Data.gov CSW" url="http://catalog.data.gov/csw-all"/>
<csw name="Geonorge - National CSW service for Norway" url="http://www.geonorge.no/geonetwork/
<csw name="Geoportale Nazionale - Servizio di ricerca Italiano" url="http://www.pcn.minambient
<csw name="LINZ Data Service" url="http://data.linz.govt.nz/feeds/csw"/>
<csw name="Nationaal Georegister (Nederland)" url="http://www.nationaalgeoregister.nl/geonetwo
<csw name="RNDT - Repertorio Nazionale dei Dati Territoriali - Servizio di ricerca" url="http:
<csw name="UK Location Catalogue Publishing Service" url="http://csw.data.gov.uk/geonetwork/sr
<csw name="UNEP/GRID-Geneva Metadata Catalog" url="http://metadata.grid.unep.ch:8080/geonetwor
</qgsCSWConnections>
To load a list of entries, click the [Load] button. A new window will appear; click the [Browse] button and
navigate to the XML file of entries you wish to load and click [Open]. The list of entries will be displayed. Select
the entries you wish to add from the list and click [Load].
Click the [Service info] button to displays information about the selected Catalogue Service such as service
identification, service provider and contact information. If you would like to view the raw XML response, click
the [GetCapabilities response] button. A separate window will open displaying Capabilities XML.
Searching Catalogue Services
The Search tab allows the user to query Catalogue Services for data and services, set various search parameters
and view results.
The following search parameters are available:
Keywords: free text search keywords
From: the Catalogue Service to perform the query against
Bounding box: the spatial area of interest to filter on defined by Xmax, Xmin, guilabel:Ymax, and guil-
abel:Ymin. Click [Set global] to do a global search, click [Map extent] to do a search on the visible area
only or manually enter custom values as desired
Clicking the [Search] button will search the selected Metadata Catalogue. Search results are displayed in a list and
are sortable by clicking on the column title. You can navigate through search results with the directional buttons
below the search results. Clicking the [View search results as XML] button opens a window with the service
response in raw XML format.
Clicking a result will provides the following options:
if the metadata record has an associated bounding box, a footprint of the bounding box will be displayed on
the map
20.14. Cliente de Catlogo de metasearch 387

Figure 20.29: Searching catalogue services
double-clicking the record displays the record metadata with any associated access links. Clicking the links
opens the link in the users web browser
if the record is an OGC web service (WMS/WMTS, WFS, WCS), the appropriate [Add to
WMS/WMTS|WFS|WCS] buttons will be enabled for the user to add to QGIS. When clicking this but-
ton, MetaSearch will verify if this is a valid OWS. The OWS will then be added to the appropriate QGIS
connection list, and the appropriate WMS/WMTS|WFS|WCS connection dialogue will then appear
Settings
You can fine tune MetaSearch with the following settings:

Connection naming: when adding an OWS connection (WMS/WMTS|WFS|WCS), the connection is stored
with the various QGIS layer provider. Use this setting to set whether to use the name provided from
MetaSearch, whether to overwrite or to use a temporary name
Results paging: when searching metadata catalogues, the number of results to show per page. Default value
is 10
Timeout: when searching metadata catalogues, the number of seconds for blocking connection attempt.
Default value is 10
20.15 Complemento Edicin fuera de linea
Para la recoleccin de datos, es una situacin comn para trabajar con un ordenador porttil o una lnea de telfono
celular en el campo. A su regreso a la red, los cambios tienen que ser sincronizados con el origen de datos principal

Figure 20.30: Metadata record display
Figure 20.31: Metasearch setting
20.15. Complemento Edicin fuera de linea 389

(ej., una base de datos PostGIS). Si varias personas estn trabajando simultneamente en los mismos conjuntos de
datos, es difcil fusionar los cambios a mano, incluso si la gente no cambia los mismo elementos.
Edicin fuera de lnea

El complemento automatiza la sincronizacin al copiar el contenido de una fuente de datos (en
general PostGIS o WFS-T) a una SpatiaLite base de datos y almacena la edicin fuera de lnea en tablas dedicadas.
Despus se conecta a la red de nuevo, es posible aplicar la edicin fuera de lnea al conjunto de datos maestro.
Abrir algunas capas vectoriales (e.j. de una fuente de datos PostGIS o WFS-T).
Guardarlo como un proyecto.
Vaya a Base de datos Edicin fuera de lnea Convertir a proyecto fuera de lnea y seleccione las
capas a guardar. El contenido de las capas se guarda en tablas SpatiaLite.
Editar las capas fuera de linea.
Despus de ser conectada de nuevo, actualizar los cambios usando Base de datos Edicin fuera de lnea
Sincronizar.
Figure 20.32: Crear un proyecto fuera de linea de capas PostGIS o WFS
20.16 Complemento GeoRaster espacial de Oracle
En las bases de datos de Oracle, los datos raster se pueden almacenar como objetos SDO_GEORASTER
GeoRaster espacial de Oracle Spatial
disponibles con la extensin de Oracle Spatial. En QGIS, el complemento es ad-
mitido por GDAL y depende de que tenga instalado y funcionando en su equipo el producto de bases de datos de

Oracle. Aunque Oracle es software propietario, proporciona de forma gratuita su software con fines de desarrollo
y prueba. Aqu hay un ejemplo de cmo cargar imgenes raster a GeoRaster:
$ gdal_translate -of georaster input_file.tif geor:scott/tiger@orcl
Esto cargar el raster en la tabla predeterminada GDAL_IMPORT, como una columna llamada RASTER
20.16.1 Administrar conexiones
En primer lugar, se debe habilitar el complemento GeoRaster de Oracle, usando el Administrador de complemen-
tos (vea El dilogo de complementos). La primera vez que cargue un GeoRaster en QGIS, debe crear una conexin
a la base de datos de Oracle que contenga los datos. Para hacer esto, inicie haciendo clic en el botn de la barra
Aadir capa GeoRaster de Oracle
de herramientas esto abrir la ventana de dilogo Seleccionar GeoRaster espacial
de Oracle. Haga clic en [Nuevo] para abrir la ventana de dialogo y especificar los parmetros de conexin (vea
Figure_oracle_raster_1):
Nombre: Introduzca un nombre para al conexin a la base de datos.
Instancia de la base de datos: Introduzca el nombre de la base de datos a la que desea conectarse.
Nombre de usuario: Especificar su nombre de usuario que usar para acceder a la base de datos.
Contrasea: Proporcionar la contrasea asociada con su usuario que es requerida para el acceso a la base
de datos.
Figure 20.33: Crear dialogo de conexin de Oracle
Ahora, de vuelta en la ventana principal de GeoRaster espacial de Oracle (vea la Figure_oracle_raster_2), utilice
la lista desplegable para elegir una conexin y utilice el botn [Conectar] para establecer la conexin. Tambin
puede [Editar] la conexin abriendo el dialogo previo y haciendo cambios en la informacin de la conexin, o
usar el botn [Borrar] para eliminar la conexin desde la lista desplegable.
20.16.2 Seleccionar un GeoRaster
Una vez que la conexin se ha establecido, la ventana de subconjuntos de datos mostrar los nombres de todas las
tablas que contengan columnas GeoRaster en esa base de datos en el formato de un nombre del subconjunto de
datos GDAL.
Haga clic en uno de los subconjuntos de datos listados y despus haga en [Seleccionar] para elegir el nombre de
la tabla. Ahora se mostrar otra lista de subconjuntos de datos con los nombres de las columnas del GeoRaster en
la tabla. Normalmente es una lista corta, ya que la mayora de los usuarios no tendrn mas de una o dos columnas
de GeoRaster en la misma tabla.
Clic sobre uno de los subconjuntos de datos en listados y despus sobre [Seleccionar] para elegir una de las
combinaciones tabla/columna. El dialogo mostrar ahora todos los registros que contengan objetos GeoRaster.
Note que la lista de subconjunto de datos mostrar ahora las parejas de tablas de datos raster e Id de raster.
20.16. Complemento GeoRaster espacial de Oracle 391

Figure 20.34: Dilogo de seleccin de GeoRaster de Oracle
En cualquier momento, la entrada seleccionada se puede ser editar para ir directamente a un GeoRaster conocido
o para regresar al inicio y seleccionar otro nombre de tabla.
La entrada de datos seleccionados tambin puede usarse para introducir una clusula WHERE al final de
la cadena de identificacin (ej. geor:scott/tiger@orcl,gdal_import,raster,geoid=). Vea
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_georaster.html para mayor informacin.
20.16.3 Mostrar GeoRaster
Finalmente, al seleccionar un GeoRaster de la lista de tablas de datos raster e Ids rster, la imagen rster se cargar
en QGIS.
El dialogo Seleccionar GeoRaster espacial de Oracle puede cerrarse ahora y la siguiente ocasin en que se abra
mantendr la misma conexin y mostrar la misma lista previa de subconjuntos de datos, haciendo muy fcil abrir
otra imagen del mismo contexto.
Nota: Los GeoRaster que contienen pirmides se mostrarn mucho ms rpido, pero las pirmides se deben
generar fuera de QGIS usando PL/SQL o gdaladdo.
Lo siguiente es un ejemplo usando gdaladdo:

gdaladdo georaster:scott/tiger@orcl,georaster\_table,georaster,georid=6 -r
nearest 2 4 6 8 16 32
Este es un ejemplo usando PL/SQL:

$ sqlplus scott/tiger
SQL> DECLARE
gr sdo_georaster;
BEGIN
SELECT image INTO gr FROM cities WHERE id = 1 FOR UPDATE;
sdo_geor.generatePyramid(gr, rLevel=5, resampling=NN);
UPDATE cities SET image = gr WHERE id = 1;
COMMIT;
END;

20.17 Complemento Anlisis de Terreno
|dem_analysis| El complemento de Anlisis de Terreno se puede utilizar para calcular la pendiente, orientacin,
mapa de sombras, ndice de irregularidad y relieve para un modelo digital de elevacin (DEM). Es muy sen-
cillo el manejo y proporciona una interfaz de usuario grfica intuitiva para crear nuevas capas rster (vea Fig-
ure_raster_terrain_1).
Descripcin del anlisis:
Pendiente: Calcula el ngulo de la pendiente de cada celda en grados (basado en primer orden estimacin
derivada).
Orientacin: Exposicin (iniciar con 0 para la direccin norte, en grados antihorario).
Mapa de sombras: Crea un mapa de sombra utilizando luz y sombra para proveer un aspecto ms tridi-
mencional para un mapa de relieve sombreado. El mapa de salida es una banda gris individual que refleja
el valor gris de los pxeles.
ndice de irregularidad: Una medicin cuantitativa de la heterogeneidad del terreno tal como se describe
por Riley et al. (1999). Se calcula para cada lugar con un resumen de los cambios en la elevacin dentro de
la cuadrcula de 3x3 pxeles.
Relieve: Crea un mapa de relieve sombreado de los datos digitales de elevacin. Implementado es un
mtodo para elegir los colores de elevacin mediante el anlisis de distribucin de frecuencia. EL mapa de
salida es una color multibanda con tres bandas que reflejan los valores RGB del relieve sombreado.
Figure 20.35: Complemento de Modelado de Terreno (Clculo de la pendiente)
1. Inicie QGIS y cargue la capa rster gtopo30 de la ubicacin de ejemplo de GRASS.

2. Cargar el complemento de Anlisis de Terreno en el Administrador de Complementos (vea El dilogo de
complementos).
3. Seleccione un mtodo de anlisis del men (e.j., Rster Anlisis de Terreno Pendiente). El dilogo
Pendiente aparece como se muestra en Figure_raster_terrain_1.
4. Especificar una ruta , y un tipo de archivo de salida
5. Haga clic en [Aceptar].
20.18 Complemento Grafo de rutas
El Grafo de rutas es un complemento en C++ para QGIS que calcula la ruta ms corta entre dos puntos en una
capa de polilnea y traza esta ruta sobre la red de carreteras.
Caractersticas principales:
20.17. Complemento Anlisis de Terreno 393

Figure 20.36: Complemento Grafo de rutas
Calcula la ruta, as como la longitud y el tiempo de viaje.

Optimiza la longitud o el tiempo de viaje.
Exporta la ruta a una capa vectorial.
Resalta la direccin de las carreteras (esto es lento y se utiliza principalmente para fines de depuracin y
para pruebas de configuracin)
Como una capa de carreteras, se puede utilizar cualquier capa vectorial de polilnea en cualquier formato admitido
por QGIS. Dos lneas con un punto en comn se consideran conectadas. Tenga en cuenta que es necesario usar el
SRC de la capa como SRC del proyecto mientras edita una capa de carreteras. Esto debido al hecho de recalcular
las coordenadas entre diferentes SRCs introduce algunos errores que pueden resultar en discontinuidades, incluso
cuando se utiliza el autoensamblado.
En la tabla de atributos de la capa, se pueden usar los siguientes campos:
Velocidad en una seccin de la carretera (campo numrico).
Direccin (cualquier tipo que se pueda convertir en texto). Las direcciones de avance y retroceso correspon-
den a una carretera de un solo sentido, ambas direcciones indican una carretera de doble sentidos.
Si algunos campos no tienen ningn valor o no existen, se usan los valores predeterminados. Puede cambiar lo
predeterminado y algunas configuraciones del complemento en el dilogo de configuracin del complemento.
20.18.1 Usar el componente
Despus de activar el complemento, ver un panel adicional del lado izquierdo de la ventana de QGIS principal.
Ahora, ingrese algunos parmetros en el dilogo Configurar complemento Grafo de rutas en el men Vectorial
Grafo de rutas (vea figure_road_graph_2).
Despus de configurar Unidad de tiempo, Unidad de distancia y Tolerancia de topologa, puede seleccionar la
capa vectorial en la pestaa Capa de transporte. Aqu tambin puede seleccionar el Campo de sentido y el Campo

Figure 20.37: Configuracin del complemento Grafo de rutas
de velocidad. En la pestaa Configuracin predeterminada, puede establecer el Sentido para el calculo.

Finalmente, en el panel Ruta ms corta, seleccione un punto de Inicio y un punto Final en la capa de red de
carreteras y pulse [Calcular].
20.19 Complemento Consulta espacial
Complemento Consulta espacial

El permite hacer una consulta espacial (ej., seleccionar objetos espaciales) en una capa
de destino con referencia a otra capa. La funcionalidad con base en la librera de GEOS y depende de la capa de
rasgos de origen seleccionado.
Operadores posibles son:
Contiene
Igual
Solapa
Cruzar
Intersecta
Est inconexo
Toca
Dentro
Como un ejemplo, queremos encontrar regiones en el conjunto de datos de Alaska que contenga aeropuertos. Los
siguientes pasos son necesarios:
1. Inicie QGIS y cargue las capas vectoriales regions.shp y airports.shp.
20.19. Complemento Consulta espacial 395

2. Cargue el complemento de Consulta espacial en el Administrador de Complementos (vea El dilogo de

Consulta espacial
complementos) y haga clic en el icono , que aparece en el men de la barra de herramientas
de QGIS. El dilogo de complemento aparece.
3. Seleccione la capa regions como la capa origen y airports como la capa de entidades de referencia.
4. Seleccione Contiene como operador y haga clic en [Aplicar].
Ahora obtiene una lista de IDs de entidades de la consulta y tiene varias opciones, como se muestra en fig-
ure_spatial_query_1.
Crear capa con lista de elementos

Haga clic sobre .
Crear capa con seleccin

Seleccione un ID de la lista y haga clic sobre .
Seleccione Eliminar de la seleccin actual en el campo Y utilizar el resultado para .
Se puede Zum al elemento o desplegar Registro de mensajes.

Adems en IDs de los objetos de resultado con las opciones Origen invlido y Referencia invlida se
puede tener una vista de los objetos espaciales con errores geomtricos. Estos objetos no se utilizan para la
consulta.
Figure 20.38: Anlisis de consulta espacial - las regiones contienen aeropuertos
20.20 Complemento Comprobador de topologa.
La topologa describe las relaciones entre puntos, lneas y polgonos que representa los objetos espaciales de una
regin geogrfica. Con el complemento de Comprobador de Topologa, puede revisar sus archivos vectoriales y
verificar la topologa con varias reglas topolgicas. Estas reglas comprueban con relaciones espaciales si su objeto
espacial es Equal, Contain, Cover, CoveredBy, Cross, o son Disjoint, Intersect, Overlap, Touch

Figure 20.39: El complemento de Comprobador de Topologa
o Within el uno al otro. Depende de sus preguntas individuales que reglas topolgicas que se aplican a los
datos vectoriales (por ejemplo, normalmente no aceptar overshoots en capas de lneas, pero si ellos representan
callejones sin salida que no eliminar de su capa vectorial).
QGIS tiene una caracterstica de edicin topolgica integrada, que es ideal para la creacin de nuevas funciones sin
errores. Pero los errores de datos existentes y los errores inducidos son difciles de encontrar. Este complemento
le ayuda a encontrar cada error a travs de una lista de reglas.
Es muy simple crear reglas topolgicas con el complemento Comprobador de topologa.
En capa de puntos las siguientes reglas estn disponibles:
Must be covered by: Aqu puede elegir una capa vectorial de su proyecto. Los puntos que no estn
cubiertos por la capa vectorial dada se produce en el campo Error.
Must be covered by endpoints of: Aqu puede elegir una capa de lneas de su proyecto.
Debe estar dentro de: Aqu puede elegir una capa de polgono de su proyecto. Los puntos deben estar
dentro de un polgono. Por otra parte, QGIS escribe un Error del punto.
Must not have duplicates: Siempre que un punto se representa dos o ms veces, se producir el campo
Error.
Must not have invalid geometries: Comprobar si las geometras son validas.
Must not have multi-part-geometries: Todos los puntos multi-parte se escriben en el campo Error.
En Capas de lneas, las siguientes reglas estn disponibles:
End points must be covered by: Aqu se puede seleccionar una capa de puntos de su proyecto.
Must not have dangles: Este mostrar los overshoots en la capa de lneas.
Must not have duplicates: Siempre que un objeto lnea es representado una o dos veces, se producir en el
campo Error.
Must not have invalid geometries: Comprobar si las geometras son validas.
20.20. Complemento Comprobador de topologa. 397

Must not have multi-part geometries: A veces, una geometra es en realidad una coleccin de simples
(una sola pieza) geometras. Una geometra de este tipo se denomina de geometra multiparte. Si contiene
slo un tipo de geometra simple, lo llamamos multi-punto, multi-lnea o multi-polgono. Todas las lneas
de multi-partes se escriben en el campo Error.
No debe tener pseudos: Un punto final de geometra de lnea debe conectarse a los puntos finales de otras
dos geometras. Si el extremo est conectado al punto final de una sola otra geometra, el punto final se
llama nodo pseudo.
En capas de polgonos, las siguientes reglas estn disponibles:
Must contain: La capa de polgonos debe contener al menos un punto de la geometra de la segunda capa.
Must not have duplicates: Los polgonos de la misma capa no deben tener geometras idnticas. Cada vez
que una entidad de polgono se represente dos veces o ms se producir en el campo Error.
Must not have gaps: Los polgonos adyacentes no deben formar espacios entre ellos. Los lmites adminis-
trativos podran mencionarse como ejemplo (polgonos de los estados de Estados Unidos no tienen espacios
entre ellos ...).
Must not have invalid geometries: Comprobar si las geometras con validas. Algunas de las reglas que
definen si una geometra es valida son:
Anillos de polgonos deben cerrarse.
Los anillos que definen agujeros deben estar dentro de los anillos que definen los lmites exteriores.
Los anillos no deben intersectarse (Ni pueden tocarse o cruzarse entre si)
Los anillos no puede tocar otros anillos, excepto en un punto.
Must not have multi-part geometries: A veces, una geometra es en realidad una coleccin geometras
sencillas (parte sencilla). Una geometra de este tipo se denomina de geometra multi-parte. Si contiene
slo un tipo de geometra simple, lo llamamos multi-punto, multi-lneas o multi-polgono. Por ejemplo, un
pas que consta de mltiples islas se puede representar como un multi-polgono.
Must not overlap: Los polgonos adyacentes no deben de compartir un rea en comn.
Must not overlap with: Los polgonos adyacentes de una capa no deben compartir un rea con los pol-
gonos de otra.
20.21 Complemento de Estadsticas de zona
With the Zonal statistics plugin, you can analyze the results of a thematic classification. It allows you
to calculate several values of the pixels of a raster layer with the help of a polygonal vector layer (see fig-
ure_zonal_statistics). Choosing a color band, the plugin generates output columns in the vector layer with an
user-defined prefix and calculates for each polygon, statistics on pixels that are within. The available statistics are
:
Count: to count the number of pixels
Sum: to sum the pixel values
Mean: to get the mean of pixel values
Median: to get the median of pixel values
StDev: to get the standard deviation of pixel values
Min: to get the minimum of pixel values
Max: to get the maximum of pixel values
Range: to get the range (max - min) of pixel values
Minority: to get the less represented pixel value

Majority: to get the most represented pixel value

Variety: to count the number of distinct pixel values
Figure 20.40: Zonal statistics dialog
20.21. Complemento de Estadsticas de zona 399


CHAPTER 21
Ayuda y apoyo
21.1 Listas de correos
QGIS est en desarrollo activo y como tal, no siempre funciona como se espera. La forma preferida de obtener
ayuda es unindose a la lista de correo qgis-users. Sus preguntas llegarn a un pblico ms amplio y las respuestas
beneficiarn a otros.
21.1.1 usuarios-qgis
La lista de correo se utiliza para discutir sobre QGIS en general adems de preguntas especificas relacionadas con
su instalacin y utilizacin. Puedes suscribirse a la lista de correos de usuarios qgis al visitar el siguiente enlace:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
21.1.2 fossgis-talk-liste
Para los de habla alemana, la FOSSGIS e.V. alemana proporciona la lista de correo fossgis-talk-liste. Esta se
utiliza para discutir sobre QGIS de cdigo abierto en general, incluyendo QGIS. Puede suscribirse a la lista de
correo de fossgis-talk-liste al visitar el siguiente enlace: https://lists.fossgis.de/mailman/listinfo/fossgis-talk-liste
21.1.3 desarrollador-qgis
SI eres un desarrollador con algunos problemas de naturaleza tcnica, puede que quieras apuntarte a la lista de
correos de desarrollador-qgis en el siguiente enlace: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
21.1.4 qgis-ux
Una lista de correo delicado donde la gente puede entablar conversaciones, recoger y discutir asuntos QGIS
relacionados con UX (Experiencia del Usuario) en QGIS / temas de usabilidad.
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-ux
21.1.5 qgis-commit
Cada vez que se realiza un commit en el repositorio de cdigo QGIS, se publica un correo electrnico en
esta lista. Si desea estar al da de cada cambio en el cdigo base actual, puede suscribirse en esta lista:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-commit
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21.1.6 qgis-trac
Esta lista proporciona notificaciones por email relacionadas con gestin de proyectos, incluyendo
informes de errores, tareas y solicitudes de funciones. Puedes suscribirte a esta lista en:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-trac
21.1.7 equipo-de-la-comunidad-qgis
Esta lista se ocupa de temas como la documentacin, ayuda de contexto, gua para el usuario, pginas
web. blog, listas de correos, foros y trabajos de traduccin. Si adems quisieras trabajar en la gua
para el usuario, esta lista es un buen punto de partida para preguntar. Puedes suscribirte a esta lista en:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
21.1.8 equipo-de-publicacin-qgis
Esta lista se ocupa de temas como el proceso de publicacin, paquetes de datos binario para var-
ios OSS y anuncios de nuevas publicaciones a nivel mundial. Puedes suscribirte a esta lista en:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-release-team
21.1.9 tr-qgis
Esta lista se encarga de los esfuerzos de traduccin. Si quiere trabajar en la traduccin del sitio web, de los
manuales o de la interfaz grfica de usuario (GUI), esta lista es un buen punto de partida para responder a tus
preguntas. Puedes suscribirte a esta lista en: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-tr
21.1.10 edu-qgis
Esta lista se encarga de los trabajos de educacin de QGIS. Si quisiera trabajar en los materiales de edu-
cacin de QGIS, esta lista es un buen punto de partida para preguntar. Puede suscribirse a esta lista en:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-edu
21.1.11 psc-qgis
Se utiliza esta lista para discutir los asuntos del Comit Directivo relacionados con la gestin y direccin general
de QGIS. Puede suscribirse a esta lista en: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
Lo invitamos a suscribirse a cualquier lista. Por favor recuerde contribuir a la lista respondiendo a preguntas y
compartiendo sus experiencias. Tenga en cuenta que las listas de qgis-commit y qgis-trac estn diseadas para dar
solo notificaciones y no para publicaciones de usuarios.
21.2 IRC
Tambin mantenemos una presencia en IRC - vistenos unindose al canal #qgis en irc.freenode.net. Por favor,
espere una respuesta a su pregunta, la mayora de gente en el canal estn haciendo otras cosas y puede tomar un
tiempo para que noten su pregunta. Si se ha perdido una discusin en IRC, no hay problema! Registramos toda
discusin, as que puede fcilmente ponerse al da. Slo tiene que ir a http://qgis.org/irclogs y leer los IRC-logs.
Apoyo comercial para QGIS tambin esta disponible. Revisar la pgina web http://qgis.org/en/commercial-
support.html para mayor informacin.
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21.3 Rastreador de Errores
Mientras que la lista de correo de usuarios de QGIS es til en general para el tipo de preguntas Cmo hago
XYZ en QGIS?, puede que desee notificarnos sobre errores en QGIS. Puede enviar informes de errores utilizando
el rastreador de errores QGIS en http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues. Al crear un nuevo ticket para un
error, proporcione una direccin de correo electrnico en la que podamos ponernos en contacto con usted para
obtener informacin adicional.
Por favor, tenga en cuenta que su error no siempre puede disfrutar de la prioridad que podra esperar (depende de
su gravedad). Algunos errores pueden requerir de significativo esfuerzo por parte del desarrollador para remediar,
y la mano de obra no siempre est disponible para esto.
Se pueden presentar las solicitudes de funciones utilizando el mismo sistema de ticket de errores. Asegrate de
seleccionar el tipo Funcin.
Si ha encontrado un error y lo corrige, puede enviar una solicitud de extraccin en el proyecto Github QGIS
(preferida) o un parche tambin. El encantador sistema de entradas http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues
tambin tiene este tipo. Compruebe la casilla Parche suministrado y adjunte el parche antes de enviar su
error . Uno de los desarrolladores lo revisar y lo aplicar a QGIS. Por favor, no se alarme si su parche no se aplica
de inmediato - los desarrolladores pueden estar vinculados con otros compromisos.
Tenga en cuenta que si proporciona una solicitud de extraccin, su cambio sera ms probable que se fusione en
el cdigo fuente!
21.4 Blog
La comunidad QGIS tambin corre un weblog en http://planet.qgis.org/planet/, que tiene algunos artculos intere-
santes para usuarios y desarrolladores tambin proporcionados por otros blogs de la comunidad. Se le invita a
contribuir con su propio blog QGIS!
21.5 Plugins
La pgina web http://plugins.qgis.org proporciona el portal web de complementos QGIS oficial. Aqu, encontrar
una lista de todos los complementos de QGIS estables y experimentales disponibles a travs del Repositorio de
complementos de QGIS oficial.
21.6 Wiki
Por ltimo, mantenemos un sitio web en WIKI http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki donde se puede en-
contrar una variedad de informacin til relacionada con el desarrollo de QGIS, planes de lanzamiento, los enlaces
para descargar sitios, mensaje- consejos de traduccin y ms. Comprubelo, hay algunas cosas en el interior!
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CHAPTER 22
Apndice
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CHAPTER 23
Referencias bibliogrficas y web
GDAL-SOFTWARE-SUITE. Geospatial data abstraction library. http://www.gdal.org, 2013.

GRASS-PROJECT. Geographic ressource analysis support system. http://grass.osgeo.org , 2013.
NETELER, M., AND MITASOVA, H. Open source gis: A grass gis approach, 2008.
OGR-SOFTWARE-SUITE. Geospatial data abstraction library. http://www.gdal.org/ogr , 2013.
OPEN-GEOSPATIAL-CONSORTIUM. Web map service (1.1.1) implementation specification.
http://portal.opengeospatial.org, 2002.
OPEN-GEOSPATIAL-CONSORTIUM. Web map service (1.3.0) implementation specification.
http://portal.opengeospatial.org, 2004.
POSTGIS-PROJECT. Spatial support for postgresql. http://postgis.refractions.net/ , 2013.
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416 Chapter 23. Referencias bibliogrficas y web

ndice
%%, 135 classes, 103

2.5 D, 109 Cobertura Binaria Arc/Info, 81
Cobertura binaria Arc/Info, 177
Acciones, 135 color, 39
Acciones de atributos, 135 Color_interpolation, 182
Actions, 45 color_Ramp, 95
Add Part, 169 colorBrewer, 95
ambiente Colormap, 182
Servidor QGIS, 209 Common_Gateway_Interface, 200
Anlisis multivariante, 106 Complemento de desplazamiento, 107
anidar proyectos, 48 complementos, 347
anotacin, 46 Compose_Maps, 303, 312
apache, 201 Composer_Items, 312
apache2, 201 Composer_Manager, 304
Arc/Info_ASCII_Grid, 177 composer_map, 314
Archivo shape, 79, 82 Composer_Template, 303
archivo vectorial, 79 conditional formatting, 157
Asistente de tamao, 106 conditional_formatting, 157
Atlas_Generation, 342 Contrast_enhancement, 181
Attribute_Table, 328 Coordinate_Reference_System, 69, 195
Attribute_Table_Selection, 153 create a rule, 107
Autoensamblado, 161, 375 create features, 164
Ayuda de contexto, 37 Create_Maps, 303, 312
Create_New_Layers, 172
Barra de escala crossing the 180 degrees longitude line, 90
Map_Scalebar, 324 CSV, 82, 166
barra de herramientas, 30 Cuadrcula
barra de herramientas de diseo, 30 Grids
Blending modes, 41 Map_Grid, 318
Browse_Maps, 76 Cuantil, 104
built-in forms, 128 Current_Edits, 167
Custom_color_Ramp, 95
Caja de herramientas de GRASS, 253
Custom_CRS, 72
personalizar, 260
customization, 66
Calculadora de Campo, 155
calcular escala, 36 data-defined override, 44, 124
calculation bar, 155 DB_Manager, 91
calidad de renderizado, 39 Debian_Squeeze, 201
Campo Calculadora, 155 default_CRS, 69
Campos Derivados, 155 define an action, 135
Campos Virtuales, 155 delete parts, 169
cargar un archivo shape, 79 Deshacer, 35
CAT, 191 Desplazar con teclas de flechas, 35
Categorized, 103 Detener el renderizado, 39
CGI, 200 diagram, 131
417
Digitalizar, 163 GeoTIFF, 177

Aadir anillo, 169 GeoTiff, 177
Aadir parte, 169 GiST (Generalized Search Tree) index, 89
Autoensamblado, 161 GML, 191
Automatic tracing, 171 GNU General Public License, 405
Borrar anillo, 170 Gradient_color_Ramp, 95
Borrar parte, 169 Graduated Renderer, 104
Combinar objetos espaciales seleccionados, 171 GRASS, 245, see Crear nuevos vectores;edicin;crear
Deshacer, 168 una nueva capa
Desplazar curva, 170 Atributo de almacenamiento, 250
Dividir objetos espaciales, 170 Atributo de enlace, 250
Dividir partes, 171 caja de herramientas, 257
Merge Attributes, 171 Edicin de regin, 253
Panel Avanzado, 172 estilo, 252
Rehacer, 168 herramientas de digitalizacin, 251
Rellenar anillo, 170 Mostrar regin, 253
Reshape Feature, 170 mostrar resultados, 256
Rotar Entidad, 169 regin, 253
Rotar smbolos de puntos, 171 GRASS vector data model, 250
Simplificar objeto espacial, 169 Guardar estilo, 140
Digitizing, 372 Guardar propiedades, 140
digitizing tools, 163
Discrete, 182 heatmap, 109
displacement circle, 107 Herramientas de Anlisis, 366
documentacin, 5 Herramientas de investigacin, 366
Herramientas del georreferenciador, 376
Edicin Topolgica, 162 Histogram, 104
editing, 161, 163 Histograma, 185
EPSG, 69 HTML_Frame, 335
Equal Interval, 104
Erdas Imagine, 177 Identificar objetos espaciales, 45
Errores, 372 IGNF, 69
Escala, 38 Import_Maps, 76
ESRI, 82 Impresin
Estadstica, 34 Export_Map, 340
Estilo, 33, 93 impresin rpida del diseador de impresin, 18
European_Petroleom_Search_Group, 69 Institut_Geographique_National_de_France , 69
Evitar Intersecciones, 162 InteProxy, 198
example actions, 135 Items_Alignment, 314
Export_as_image, 340
Export_as_PDF, 340 join, 130
Export_as_SVG, 340 join layer, 130
Expresiones, 141
keyword lists, 139
Expression based labeling, 123
Expressions, 142 label placement, 119
expressions, 53 labeling, 117
layer rendering, 111
FastCGI, 200
Layout_Maps, 303, 312
field calculator, 155
legend_composer
Field_Calculator_Functions, 143
Map_Legend, 322
Formato Tiger, 81
leyenda, 31
GDAL, 177 license document, 405
generalisation, 139 loading_raster, 177
Geometry, 375 Log messages, 35
Geometry Checker, 372 logging
Geometry snapper plugin, 375 Servidor QGIS, 209
Geometry validity, 372
Map Tips, 138
geometryless feature, 165, 169
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Map_Navigation, 41 Proyecciones, 69
Map_Template, 303
MapInfo, 79 QGIS_mapserver, 199
marcdores, 47 QGIS_Server, 200
marcdores espaciales QML, 140
ver marcadores, 47 QSpatiaLite, 91
medicin, 42 Query Builder, 100
ngulos, 43
reas, 43 Rster, 177
longitud de lnea, 43 Radio de Bsqueda, 162
mens, 22 Raster_Calculator, 187
Metadata, 185 Rehacer, 35
Metadatos, 139 Relaciones, 157
MSSQL Spatial, 91 rendering effects, 41
Multi_Band_Raster, 179 Rendering_Mode, 312
multiline, 169 Renderizado, 38
multipoint, 169 Renderizado 2.5 D, 109
multipolygon, 169 Renderizado dependiente de la escala, 38
Representacin basada en reglas, 107
Natural Breaks (Jenks), 104 Representacin Mapa de calor, 109
New_GPX_Layer, 172, 175 Representacin Polgono Invertido, 107
New_Shapefile_Layer, 172 Representador Categorizado, 103
New_SpatiaLite_Layer, 172 Representador de Smbolo nico, 102
New_Spatialite_Layer, 173 Representador Graduado, 104
New_Temporary_Scratch_Layer, 175 Revert_Layout_Actions, 311
Niveles de smbolos, 111 ring polygons, 170
Node_Tool, 164 Rotated_North_Arrow, 334
Nodos, 165 Rubber band, 164
Non_Spatial_Attribute_Tables, 157 rule-based, 107
Rule-based labeling, 125
OGC, 191 rules of ordering, 111
OGR, 82
OGR Simple Feature Library, 82 Smbolo Proporcional, 106
ogr2ogr, 88 salida guardar como imagen, 18
opciones de lnea de rdenes, 14 Search radius, 162
Open_Geospatial_Consortium, 191 Secured_OGC_Authentication, 198
OpenStreetMap, 84 Servidor QGIS
Oracle Spatial, 91 ambiente, 209
OSM, 84 logging, 209
servidor-proxy, 193
Paint effects, 112 SFS, 191
Pan, 41 Shared Polygon Boundaries, 162
pgsql2shp, 88 shp2pgsql, 88
Picture_database, 334 Simbologa, 102, 179
Pirmides, 185 Single_Band_Raster, 179
Plugin, 375 SLD, 200
Point Displacement Renderer, 107 SLD/SE, 200
polygon_to_line Snapping On Intersections, 163
line_to_polygon, 166 Snapping tolerance, 161
PostGIS, 85 Spatialite, 90
PostGIS spatial index, 89 Spatialite_Manager, 91
PostgreSQL, 85 SQLite, 90
Pretty Breaks, 104 SRC, 69, 195
print_composer SRS, 195
herramientas, 306 ST_Shift_Longitude, 89
Proj.4, 72 Style, 102
Proj4, 71
Proj4_text, 71 tabla de atributos, 152
Proxy, 193 Teclas de acceso rpido, 37
ndice 419
Three_Band_Color_Raster, 179
Tolerancia de Autoensamblado, 161
Topology, 372, 375
Transformacin_datos, 73
Transparency, 184
UK_National Transfer Format, 81

US Census Bureau, 81
Vrtice, 165
Vrtices, 165
Valores separados por coma, 82
variable, 53
variables, 53
ventana principal, 21
virtual field, 155
Virtual_Layers, 175
visibilidad de la capa, 32
Vista general del mapa, 35
WCS, 191, 199

Web Coverage Service, 199
WFS, 191, 199
WFS-T, 199
WFS_Transactional, 199
WKT, 69, 166
WMS, 191
WMS-C, 196
WMS_1.3.0, 199
WMS_client, 191
WMS_identify, 196
WMS_layer_transparency, 195
WMS_metadata, 197
WMS_properties, 197
WMS_tiles, 196
WMTS, 196
WMTS_client, 191
Work_with_Attribute_Table, 152
z-order, 111
Zoom_In Zoom_Out, 41
zum con rueda del ratn, 35
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5 Novedades de QGIS 2.14 11

10 Trabajar con Proyecciones 69

12 Trabajar con catos vectoriales 79

13 Trabajar con catos raster 177

14 Trabajar con datos OGC 191

15 Trabajar con datos GPS 213

16 Sistema de autenticacin 223

17 Integracion GRASS SIG 245

18 Entorno de trabajo de procesamiento de QGIS 261

19 Diseadores de impresin 303

21 Ayuda y apoyo 401

23 Referencias bibliogrficas y web 415

2.1 Convenciones de la Interfaz Grfica o GUI

Aadir capa rster

Buscar una archivo:

2.2 Convenciones de Texto o Teclado

Nombre de una Clase: NewLayer

2.3 Instrucciones especficas de cada plataforma

Hacer otra cosa

Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de los Sistemas de Informacin Geogrfica (SIG)!

4.1 Ver datos

4.2 Explorar datos y componer mapas

Vectores definidos por datos y herramientas para simbologia raster.

4.3 Crear, editar, gestionar y exportar datos

4.4 Analizar datos

4.5 Publicar mapas en Internet

4.6 Extender funcionalidades QGIS a travs de complementos

4.6.1 Complementos del Ncleo

Los complementos del ncleo incluyen:

4.6.2 Complementos externos de Python

4.7 Consola de Python

4.7. Consola de Python 9

4.8 Problemas Conocidos

4.8.1 Limitacin en el nmero de archivos abiertos

Para solucionarlo para siempre

Novedades de QGIS 2.14

12 Chapter 5. Novedades de QGIS 2.14

6.1.1 Instalacin a partir de las fuentes

6.1.2 Instalacin en medios extrables

6.1.3 Datos de ejemplo

6.2 Lanzando QGIS

6.2.1 Starting and Stopping QGIS

QGIS Quit QGIS, or use the shortcut Cmd+Q

6.2.2 Opciones de la lnea de rdenes

Truco: Ejemplo usando argumentos de la lnea de rdenes

Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --snapshot

6.2. Lanzando QGIS 15

Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --nologo

Opcin de la lnea de rdenes --configpath

6.3 Sesin de Muestra: Cargar capas rster y vectorial

Add Raster Layer

Add Vector Layer

6.3. Sesin de Muestra: Cargar capas rster y vectorial 17

Figure 7.1: QGIS GUI with Alaska sample data

The QGIS GUI is divided into five areas:

7.1 Barra de Men

Men Opcin Atajos Referencia Barra de herramietas

22 Chapter 7. IGU QGIS

7.1. Barra de Men 23

Men Opcin Atajos Referencia Barra de

Simplify Feature ver Digitalizacin avanzada Digitalizacin